Overview

• President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russian forces fired about 50 missiles, including Kinzhal types, and roughly 500 attack drones in a mass night assault across multiple oblasts.
• Local authorities reported major damage and fires in Lviv with a partial blackout and the Sparrow industrial park burning, while strikes in Zaporizhzhia hit residential areas and wounded civilians.
• Ukraine’s General Staff recorded 188 combat engagements in the past day, including 81 airstrikes, 182 guided bombs, 4,373 shelling incidents and 5,857 kamikaze drones used.
• Fighting remained heaviest on the Pokrovsk axis, where Ukrainian forces said they repelled 60 assaults and the Territorial Defense commander reported about 180 square kilometers liberated and nearly 200 square kilometers cleared of sabotage groups.
• Poland raised air-defense readiness and launched fighter patrols to safeguard its airspace, and investigators later reported finding debris of an unidentified object resembling a drone in Mazovia.