Overview
- Ukraine’s Air Forces reported one Iskander-M missile and 176 strike drones launched overnight, saying air defenses downed or suppressed 139 and confirmed 37 impacts across 14 locations.
- Regional Ukrainian authorities cited damage to homes, industry and energy sites with injuries in Dnipropetrovsk and Sumy, outages in parts of Chernihiv, and fires at energy facilities in Odesa region.
- Russian officials said Ukrainian drones struck inside Russia, with three injured and a residential fire in Volgograd, multiple drones downed in Rostov and Voronezh, and Belgorod reporting about 70 drones over the past day with three people hurt.
- Russia’s Defense Ministry said air defenses destroyed 197 Ukrainian fixed-wing drones in the ‘special operation’ zone and intercepted a guided bomb, HIMARS rockets and Neptune missiles.
- Moscow reported battlefield gains, claiming Ukrainian losses near Kupyansk and on the Krasnoarmeysk direction, equipment destroyed near Konstantinovka, and encirclement pressure around Dimitrov where it urged Ukrainian troops to surrender.