Overview

• The General Staff said there were 184 combat engagements in the past day, with 89 airstrikes, 4,785 shelling incidents and 6,325 kamikaze drones used by Russia.
• Ukraine’s military said drone and special-operations units struck the Kirishi oil refinery in Russia’s Leningrad region, reporting explosions and a fire while assessing damage.
• Ukrainian intelligence sources said GUR and Special Operations Forces carried out combined attacks on rail links between Orel–Kursk and St. Petersburg–Pskov, causing a derailment, destroying fuel tank cars and disrupting traffic.
• Romania’s defense officials said F‑16s tracked a Russian drone inside Romanian airspace for about 50 minutes and considered shooting it down as NATO allies condemned the breach and Bucharest signaled it will raise the issue at the UN General Assembly.
• In Ukraine’s Kyiv region, authorities reported an overnight explosion in a freight railcar carrying military cargo that damaged infrastructure and rerouted trains, with investigators opening a criminal case and rail service later restored on the affected line.