Overview

• Ukrainian authorities reported one of the year’s largest assaults with hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles, with the General Staff citing 643 projectiles, at least four deaths including a 12-year-old, and about 70 injured.
• NATO said it is sending additional intelligence and surveillance assets and at least one air-defense frigate to the Baltic and has stepped up regional missions, as Poland scrambled fighters and placed ground defenses on alert.
• Denmark imposed a nationwide ban on civilian drone flights through Friday to secure EU meetings in Copenhagen after repeated sightings near military sites.
• President Volodymyr Zelensky alleged Russian tankers are being used to launch and control drones over European countries and urged sanctions against the tanker fleet, a claim Moscow denied as it insisted it strikes only military targets.
• A U.S. envoy said President Trump has authorized Ukraine to conduct long-range strikes into Russia, adding that Pentagon approvals have not always followed.