Overview
- Regional authorities in Russia’s Krasnodar said a Ukrainian drone strike in Tuapse damaged an oil tanker and port buildings, sparking fires and prompting a crew evacuation with no injuries reported.
- Ukraine’s military intelligence said it struck the Koltsevoy fuel pipeline near Moscow and claimed three lines were destroyed, a report not independently verified.
- Ukraine’s commander Oleksandr Syrskyi said forces are holding Pokrovsk despite Russian assertions of encirclement, while ISW assessed Russian infiltration without evidence of a full encirclement.
- Russian attacks on Ukraine’s grid left nearly 60,000 without power in Zaporizhzhia and killed two people in the Odesa region, with officials reporting rolling outages as repairs proceed.
- Russia’s defence ministry reported intercepting 164 Ukrainian drones overnight, including dozens over the Black Sea and Crimea.