Overview

• Russia deployed 728 drones and 13 missiles overnight in its largest single-night aerial offensive of the conflict.
• Ukraine’s air force intercepted 296 drones and seven missiles, jamming or disrupting 415 additional drones.
• Falling drone debris ignited fires in apartments, storage sites and vehicles across six Kyiv districts, injuring at least three people.
• Poland scrambled fighter jets and elevated its military alert to the highest level over spillover risks.
• Ukraine’s counterstrike drones struck Russia’s Kursk border region, killing three civilians including a five-year-old boy.