Overview

• Russian overnight drone strikes across eastern and southern Ukraine killed six people, with fatalities reported in Donetsk, Kherson, Zaporizhzhia and Dnipropetrovsk regions.
• The Ukrainian Air Force said it intercepted 11 of the 35 Iranian-made Shahed attack drones deployed toward the eastern front.
• In Odesa, more than 20 drones attacked from multiple directions, igniting a residential building fire and killing one person, Mayor Gennadiy Trukhanov said.
• The Russian Defense Ministry reported shooting down or seizing 87 Ukrainian drones, including in Bryansk and near Moscow.
• The European Union imposed new sanctions on Russian oil revenues alongside Kyiv’s appeals for enhanced Western air-defense systems.