Overview

• Ukraine says Russia launched 496 attack drones and 53 missiles overnight, with air defenses destroying 478 of 549 aerial threats and the main axis targeting Lviv region.
• Lviv authorities confirmed four dead and eight injured as fires and blasts hit housing and industrial sites, while Zaporizhzhia reported one dead and more than 10 wounded and over 110,000 subscribers lost power nationwide.
• Lithuania detected 25 meteoballoons entering from Belarus, briefly closed Vilnius airport and diverted flights, and Poland scrambled fighters and later found debris of a suspected drone in Mazovia.
• Ground fighting stayed intense with 188 combat engagements in the past day, heaviest on the Pokrovsk axis, where Ukraine’s Territorial Defense commander said 180 sq km were liberated and nearly 200 sq km cleared.
• Kyiv appealed for more air-defense systems and tighter sanctions as OSCE’s Finnish chair condemned the strikes, while officials coordinated emergency repairs, rerouted rail services in the north, and rushed energy equipment to Sumy.