Overview
- Ukraine’s General Staff said forces struck the 8‑N pipeline dispatch station in Bryansk and the Samara LPDS, and hit two aircraft at the Kacha military airfield in occupied Crimea.
- Bashkortostan’s regional chief reported a new fire at the Gazprom Neftekhim Salavat petrochemical complex after a drone attack, the second such strike on the facility in a week, with damage still being assessed.
- Russia’s Defense Ministry reported intercepting about 70 Ukrainian drones overnight across several regions and Crimea, while Moscow’s mayor said dozens targeting the capital were downed, prompting temporary flight suspensions at Sheremetyevo Airport.
- Ukraine’s Air Force reported a large Russian assault of three Iskander ballistic missiles and 115 drones, with most neutralized, as strikes killed civilians and damaged infrastructure in Zaporizhzhia and Odesa.
- Frontline fighting remained intense with 172 clashes over the past day, and Ukrainian officials identified the Pokrovsk sector in Donetsk Oblast as the most active area of Russian pressure.