Overview

• Ukrainian officials said Russia fired about 580 drones and 40 missiles across nine regions, killing at least three and injuring dozens, with a missile carrying cluster munitions striking a residential block in Dnipro and rescue workers among the wounded.
• Ukraine reported drone attacks on Rosneft’s Saratov and Novokuibyshevsk refineries and on oil pipeline pumping stations linked to exports via Novorossiysk, while Samara’s governor reported four deaths and Russia has not confirmed the refinery damage.
• Ukraine’s Air Force reported downing most incoming weapons, including hundreds of drones and the majority of cruise missiles, while Russia claimed its defenses destroyed large numbers of Ukrainian drones, underscoring sharply divergent tallies.
• Regional tensions extended beyond the battlefield as Poland found wreckage likely from the earlier Russian drone airspace violation and NATO allies scrambled aircraft, with the UK flying its first alliance air defense sortie over Poland.
• Ukraine’s military intelligence said it destroyed three Russian Mi-8 helicopters and a Nebo-U radar station in occupied Crimea, targeting assets used for transport and early warning.