Overview

• Russia’s Defense Ministry said overnight strikes hit Ukrainian special-operations locations near Tatarbunary and Rasseyka, drone storage at Odesa’s Shkolny airfield, and workshops at the Motor Sich enterprise.
• Crimean leader Sergey Aksyonov reported three people killed and 16 wounded in the earlier drone attack on Foros that Russia cited as the reason for the retaliation.
• Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin said air defenses destroyed 15 drones bound for the capital since the start of the night, and regional authorities later announced a drone danger alert in Stavropol Krai.
• Poland’s foreign minister Radosław Sikorski and Prime Minister Donald Tusk warned that any unauthorized aircraft or missiles over Polish territory will be shot down, while a Russian UN envoy denied an alleged Estonian airspace violation by MiG-31s.
• Russia claimed its forces trapped up to 700 Ukrainian troops in Kupyansk and inflicted heavy losses over the past month, assertions that could not be independently verified.