Overview
- Russia’s drone hit a covered market in Nikopol on Saturday, killing five people and injuring 27, and Ukraine’s prosecutor general opened a war-crimes case.
- Ukraine’s air force said Russia launched 286 attack drones overnight and defenses downed 260, following Friday’s larger barrages that also included dozens of missiles.
- Ukrainian officials reported a shift to daytime waves and the use of faster Shahed-type drones with jet engines to probe air defenses and increase the chance of breakthroughs.
- Strikes also hit Kharkiv, Sumy and the Kyiv region, where blasts damaged homes and offices and set high‑rise buildings on fire, injuring residents including children.
- Ukraine said its drones struck Russia’s Primorsk oil export hub and the NORSI refinery, and the Leningrad region’s governor later withdrew a claim that a pipeline was damaged.