Overview

• Ukraine’s Air Force said Russia launched 549 aerial weapons — about 496 attack drones plus cruise and ballistic missiles — in overnight strikes that killed at least five people.
• Regional officials reported widespread infrastructure damage and power cuts, including roughly 73,000 without electricity in Zaporizhzhia and major fires in Lviv, as Poland and NATO put aircraft and air defenses on high alert.
• Russia’s Defense Ministry said it intercepted 251 Ukrainian drones over multiple regions including Crimea, Kursk and Belgorod, where nearly 40,000 residents temporarily lost power.
• Ukraine’s General Staff said long-range drones struck targets inside Russia, naming the Sverdlov munitions plant in Nizhny Novgorod, a petroleum terminal in Crimea and an arms depot.
• President Volodymyr Zelenskiy alleged Russian missiles and drones used thousands of foreign-made components, and Vladimir Putin warned that any US transfer of Tomahawk missiles would wreck improving ties with Washington.