Overview
- Ukraine’s Air Force tracked 673 aerial threats and reported intercepting 587 drones and 34 cruise missiles, with strikes and debris recorded in 21 locations.
- Authorities reported at least three civilian deaths, including a four-year-old, as emergency blackouts hit multiple regions and nuclear plants reduced output pending grid repairs.
- Damage was reported to energy, port, transport, industrial and residential sites, including in Odesa, with western regions such as Rivne, Ternopil and Khmelnytskyi heavily affected.
- Poland deployed national and allied aircraft to protect its airspace as the attack pushed close to NATO’s eastern flank.
- Ukrainian officials said their forces struck targets inside Russia, including an oil terminal, a pipeline, warplanes at Lipetsk, ships in the Krasnodar region and a submarine at Novorossiysk.