Overview
- Russia deployed over 500 drones and rockets in its largest overnight aerial attack of the war, targeting multiple Ukrainian regions.
- A Russian drone strike on a high-rise in Odessa killed at least two civilians and injured six others.
- The Ukrainian Air Force reported that an F-16 pilot was killed after downing seven hostile targets when his jet was struck.
- Ukrainian forces conducted raids on airfields in Volgograd and Crimea, claiming the destruction of Su-34 bombers, three attack helicopters, and a Pantsir-S1 system.
- President Zelensky signed a decree to withdraw from the Ottawa Convention as Russia massed about 110,000 troops near Pokrovsk and NATO Eurofighters intercepted a Russian Il-20M over the Baltic Sea.