Overview
- Ukraine’s General Staff reported more than 200 daily combat encounters and said Russian forces launched thousands of kamikaze drones against Ukrainian positions, citing operational tallies that included roughly 9,600 strike drones used in a reporting period.
- On Tuesday President Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed a repeat strike on the Dubna satellite communications centre in the Moscow region while Ukrainian forces also reported hits on an automobile bridge in occupied Zaporizhzhia and a railway bridge in occupied Crimea.
- Russian attacks continued to cause civilian deaths and damage inside Ukraine, with regional officials reporting multiple fatalities and dozens wounded in Kharkiv region and separate strikes damaging historic buildings in central Zaporizhzhia.
- Ukraine’s domestic emergency service battled a large wildfire in the Chernobyl exclusion zone with more than 200 rescuers and about 60 pieces of equipment while Romanian authorities said they found a fragment of a Russian drone warhead on their soil that was destroyed by controlled detonation.
- The long‑running Ukrainian campaign of long‑range and drone strikes against oil and transport nodes has contributed to widespread fuel shortages inside Russia, with reporting that over 55 Russian regions have faced supply limits or rationing and likely second‑order effects on services and logistics.