Overview

• Kremlin forces fired 479 drones and 20 missiles in a night-long assault, with Ukrainian air defenses intercepting 277 drones and 19 missiles.
• Russia’s Defense Ministry says troops have reached the western edge of Donetsk and pushed into Dnipropetrovsk for the first time, while advanced units close to within 18 miles of Sumy.
• Ukrainian special operations carried out deep drone raids on the Savasleyka airfield, reportedly hitting MiG-31 and Su-30/34 aircraft and triggering a large factory fire in Chuvashia.
• Direct talks between Kyiv and Moscow remain stalled as both sides blame each other over prisoner exchanges and the return of thousands of fallen soldiers’ bodies.
• NATO allies, including Poland, scrambled jets after strikes near their borders and the US redirected some pledged anti-drone systems to other theaters.