Overview
- Overnight waves of Russian drones and missiles hit regions including Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk and Zaporizhzhia, killing at least five and causing power outages and transit disruptions in parts of Lviv, according to Ukrainian officials.
- Poland said its and allied fighter jets were airborne and air defenses at maximum readiness to safeguard airspace near the Ukrainian border.
- A Russian drone strike on Shostka railway station in Sumy killed one person and injured about 30 in a reported “double tap” attack on passenger trains, Ukrainian authorities said.
- Ukraine conducted cross-border strikes, with a drone attack igniting a fire at the Kinef oil refinery in Kirishi in Russia’s Leningrad region, which local officials said was later extinguished.
- Both sides reported extensive air-defense activity, with Ukraine saying it downed dozens of incoming drones and Russia claiming it shot down more than 200 Ukrainian UAVs, while a train carrying 110 Italian activists passed near the blasts and arrived safely in Poland.