Overview
- Kyiv officials reported at least 4 dead and 27 injured, including two children, after nighttime strikes, with damage to dozens of residential buildings, medical facilities, public transport and shops across multiple districts.
- Russia’s Defense Ministry said it conducted a large‑scale attack with long‑range precision weapons, including Kinzhal hypersonic missiles and strike drones, targeting defense‑industrial and energy infrastructure as well as military sites across Ukraine.
- Authorities in Novorossiysk declared a state of emergency after a mass UAV attack, citing damage to apartment buildings, port and energy facilities, injuries to one resident and three crew on a civilian ship, and the opening of temporary accommodation points.
- Regional updates in Russia included claims of 66 drones downed over Krasnodar Krai and 59 over the Black Sea, air defenses repelling strikes on Volgograd energy sites without casualties, debris damage to a house and car in Voronezh, the lifting of a drone threat in Saratov after reported infrastructure damage, and nearly 70 UAV attacks on Belgorod with two men wounded.
- Russian and pro‑Russian sources reported strikes on airfields and facilities in Kirovohrad and near Chuhuiv, Bila Tserkva and Boryspil, while Russian units claimed to have destroyed Ukrainian reconnaissance groups in Zaporizhzhia and Sumy, seized a position, and thwarted three counterattacks near the Oskil River in Kharkiv region.