Overview

• Ukraine’s General Staff reports Russia deployed 1,275 combat drones and 61 combat aircraft missions in weekend assaults, overwhelming air defenses.
• Authorities say at least 43 people were injured and several civilians killed as residential buildings, a kindergarten and military facilities were damaged across multiple Ukrainian cities.
• Ukrainian forces have reconfigured front lines into scattered trenches and fortified pits to reduce visibility to attacking drones.
• President Zelenskyy announced cooperation with allies to ramp up drone production for current defense needs and post-war reconstruction.
• President Trump affirmed new U.S. shipments of defensive weapons to Ukraine as NATO warns of a Sino-Russian axis supplying drones with Iranian design, Chinese components and North Korean labor.