Overview

• Ukraine’s air force said Russia launched 593 drones and 50 missiles overnight, with defenders downing or suppressing 566 drones and 45 missiles in the largest combined strike since September 7.
• At least four people, including a 12-year-old girl, were killed in Kyiv, where officials reported 27 injured and damage to apartment blocks, a medical facility, warehouses and other sites; Zaporizhzhia authorities reported 27 more injuries.
• Poland scrambled fighter jets, put air defenses on highest readiness and briefly closed airspace over Lublin and Rzeszow, later reporting no violations; Dutch F-35s and a German Patriot unit were among allied assets on alert.
• At the UN, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Moscow has no plan to attack NATO or EU states but warned any aggression would draw a “decisive response,” adding countries would “regret” shooting down objects still in Russian airspace.
• President Volodymyr Zelensky said a Patriot battery supplied via Israel is operating in Ukraine, and both Kyiv and Moscow acknowledged the Russian‑occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant had been off the grid for four days, heightening safety concerns.