Overview
- Russia’s Defense Ministry said it carried out a large overnight strike with precision missiles, Kinzhal hypersonic weapons and drones against facilities that support Ukraine’s defense production and power system.
- Kyiv officials reported at least four people killed and 27 injured in the capital, with damage to dozens of residential buildings and civilian sites; regional authorities also cited an energy facility hit in Odesa and a morning missile strike that damaged a road near Sumy.
- Russian regions reported extensive UAV activity, with Saratov authorities citing 45 drones downed overnight and later lifting an alert, Volgograd saying air defenses repelled attacks on energy sites without outages, and Voronezh reporting debris damage to a house and car without injuries.
- Belgorod authorities said nearly 70 drones targeted the region in a day and reported injuries in the settlement of Oktyabrsky, while Krasnodar Krai reported damage in Novorossiysk to housing, port infrastructure and a civilian vessel and opened shelters for affected residents.
- Pro‑Russian sources and the Russian military claimed strikes on airfields, command posts, air defenses and depots across multiple Ukrainian regions and reported repelled attacks near Kharkiv and Krasnoarmiysk and a destroyed reconnaissance group in Sumy; these operational claims have limited independent verification.