Overview

• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia unleashed over 300 strike drones and more than 30 cruise missiles in the overnight assault, marking a new peak in its long-range campaign.
• The barrage killed one person and wounded six others, including children, in Odesa and claimed two lives in Dnipropetrovsk while damaging a clinic, a school and a cultural center.
• Critical infrastructure in the Sumy region was struck, leaving several thousand households without electricity after energy facilities were hit.
• Zelenskyy thanked global allies and urged rapid implementation of defense agreements, highlighting joint weapons and drone production alongside urgent air defense deliveries.
• Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry accused Russia of forcibly deporting dozens of its citizens into Georgia without identification and abandoning them in a border transit zone.