Overview

• Local officials reported at least five deaths and multiple injuries across several oblasts in the latest attacks, with casualties in Donetsk, Chernihiv and Zaporizhzhia and additional damage in Kharkiv, Kherson, Sumy and Odesa.
• Ukraine’s Air Force said it shot down 54 of 78 attack drones launched overnight, underscoring both the scale of the barrage and limits on full protection.
• Energy company DTEK said electricity was restored to roughly 240,000 households in Odesa after strikes damaged energy infrastructure overnight.
• In Chernihiv, drones hit utility company vehicles, killing one worker and injuring four, and subsequent fire targeted arriving firefighters, the regional governor said.
• Russia’s TASS reported a fatal Ukrainian drone strike in the Kursk region, a Ukrainian security source told Reuters drones hit the Bashneft refinery in Ufa, and the UK disclosed an RAF mission with US and NATO partners to patrol near Russia after alleged incursions.