Overview
- Regional officials in Rostov-on-Don reported a vessel fire that killed two crew members, and a separate strike in Bataysk left one person dead and several injured.
- Russia’s Defense Ministry said air defenses intercepted or destroyed 47 Ukrainian drones overnight in several regions, later putting the total at 77 over a longer timeframe.
- Ukraine’s Air Force said Russia launched 82 attack drones overnight and reported 63 were shot down or suppressed as strikes hit multiple regions.
- Ukraine’s acting energy minister said overnight Russian attacks cut electricity to about 180,000 customers across Mykolaiv, Zaporizhzhia, Cherkasy, Dnipropetrovsk and Sumy.
- Ukraine’s SBU and General Staff reported strikes on Russian air‑defense radar near Belbek in Crimea and a UAV storage site in Makiivka, while new satellite images showed quay damage and floating barriers at Novorossiysk near Kilo‑class submarines, which Russia says were unharmed.