Overview
- - Ukraine’s air force reported that Russia launched 172 attack drones overnight Thursday, saying air defenses shot down 147 while 22 reached targets and one person was killed in Dnipropetrovsk.
- - Russian officials said Ukrainian drones reached the refinery hub near Ufa in Bashkortostan on Thursday, sparking an industrial fire and striking a home with no reported injuries more than 1,000 kilometers from Ukraine.
- - Ukraine’s general staff said it struck the Strela plant in Russia’s Bryansk region, which it describes as a producer of cruise‑missile components, and reported confirmed hits on the site.
- - The Finnish Border Guard and Reuters said tanker traffic through the Baltic has plunged as Ust‑Luga and Primorsk saw shipments nearly halt over the past week, with analysts estimating Russian revenue losses of roughly $70–75 million per day at current prices.
- - Ukrainian authorities reported at least five recent civilian deaths from Russian drone attacks, including four people killed by an explosion in Cherkasy region, while strikes set fires at a logistics site in Lutsk.