Overview
- Regional authorities in Volgograd reported a fire at the Zhutovskaya oil depot after a Ukrainian drone strike, with no immediate casualties and possible evacuations, while Ukraine’s General Staff claimed the hit.
- Ukraine said it targeted three Lukoil drilling platforms in the Caspian Sea, reporting direct hits on the V. Filanovsky, Yuri Korchagin and Valery Grayfer sites, with damage still being assessed.
- Kyiv remains under severe energy strain after Russia’s mass drone‑and‑missile attacks, with more than 1,000 apartment blocks still without heating as temperatures plunge below minus 10C, officials said.
- Russia used the Oreshnik hypersonic missile in a strike on western Ukraine, drawing European condemnation as escalatory, and Ukraine reported shooting down most of the 154 drones launched overnight into Sunday.
- A Ukrainian drone attack on the Russian city of Voronezh killed one woman and injured three, officials said, while blasts damaged multiple residential and public buildings.