Overview
- Ukraine has intensified mass 'middle‑strike' and FPV drone attacks that have sharply reduced traffic on the R‑280/Novorossija supply route and repeatedly hit convoys, depots and bridge links.
- Those strikes have produced measurable fuel shortages and rationing on Crimea and caused supply problems in multiple Russian regions, leaving civilians and tourists stranded at petrol stations.
- Ukrainian drones have also struck industrial targets inside Russia, including a chemical plant and state fuel reserves, with regional officials reporting at least one death and several injuries from strikes on a residential building.
- On Sunday British Royal Navy commandos and law‑enforcement teams boarded and are holding the tanker Smyrtos off England’s south coast in a six‑hour operation that Britain says targets Russia’s sanction‑evasion 'shadow fleet'.
- The Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant lost external power after a substation attack but was reconnected during a local ceasefire and the IAEA reported no release of radioactivity, underscoring risks to critical civilian infrastructure as the campaign escalates.