Overview
- Ukraine reported early Saturday that Russia launched about 294 drones overnight, with strikes injuring civilians and damaging homes and port sites in the Odesa region’s Izmail district.
- Following Friday’s large cross-border barrage, Russia said its air defenses downed 355 Ukrainian drones over multiple regions, while officials in Ryazan confirmed at least four deaths and damage to two apartment blocks and an industrial site.
- Kyiv’s death toll from Thursday night’s strike rose to 12, including two children, as rescue crews worked through collapsed sections of a residential building.
- Emergency teams carried out evacuations, treated the wounded, restored power to dozens of Odesa-area communities, and in Russia investigators opened a terrorism case tied to the Ryazan attack.
- Ground fighting stayed intense on Saturday, with Ukraine’s General Staff logging 61 clashes across sectors that include Pokrovsk, Northern Slobozhanshchyna, and the Kursk direction.