Overview

• Ukraine reported a mass overnight drone attack on energy and gas facilities across six regions, with more than 100,000 people losing power in parts of Poltava, Sumy and Chernihiv.
• Air defenses shot down 74 of 95 drones, but 21 struck nine locations, damaging a key substation in Sumy and gas transport infrastructure in Poltava, officials said.
• The General Staff logged 173 combat clashes on August 26, with the Pokrovsk and Lyman sectors the most active and 44 assaults repelled in the Pokrovsk area alone.
• Ukraine acknowledged Russian troops have entered the Dnipropetrovsk region but denied that Zaporizke and Novoheorhiivka were captured, a claim asserted by Russia and echoed by the DeepState monitor.
• Civilian and industrial sites were hit in separate attacks, including FPV drone strikes in Kostiantynivka that killed a woman and a mine strike that killed one worker and injured six, according to local authorities and DTEK.