Overview
- Over the weekend Russia launched a major ballistic‑rocket and drone barrage on Kyiv that President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said involved more than 40 rockets and roughly 120 attack drones.
- Ukraine responded with expanded long‑range drone strikes that hit two large Wildberries logistics centers near Moscow and Tambov and have continued targeting Russian energy sites and rear logistics nodes.
- The Ukrainian SBU claimed a drone strike on Engels airbase destroyed a Tu‑95 bomber, a claim later supported by satellite imagery showing the aircraft’s tail separated from the fuselage.
- Ukrainian drone commands report multiple hits on so‑called 'shadow fleet' tankers and freighters in the Black Sea and Azov Sea, operations that disrupt Russian fuel and grain movements and endanger commercial shipping.
- Both sides report civilian deaths and injuries and publish large tally claims of equipment losses that are not fully independently verified, creating growing concern about wider escalation and impacts on food security.