Overview

• Ukraine’s air force reported 593 drones and 50 missiles launched in one of the largest combined attacks in months, with defenses downing or suppressing 566 drones and 45 missiles over more than 12 hours.
• Kyiv officials said at least four people were killed, including a 12-year-old girl, and at least 27 were injured, with strikes damaging residential buildings, a state medical facility, warehouses, private homes and a children’s center.
• Regional authorities reported additional hits across Zaporizhzhia, Khmelnytskyi, Sumy, Mykolaiv, Chernihiv and Odesa, including at least 27 injuries in Zaporizhzhia and fires in high-rise buildings.
• Poland activated allied air policing, scrambled fighter pairs, raised ground-based air defenses and briefly closed airspace over Lublin and Rzeszow, later reporting no airspace violations during the alert.
• The barrage followed sharp exchanges at the UN where Russia’s Sergei Lavrov denied plans to attack NATO but warned of a “decisive response,” as Kyiv urged tougher international pressure and Russia claimed it shot down 41 Ukrainian drones.