Overview
- Ukrainian officials say Russian forces carried out a massed campaign on the night of 26–27 August using aviation, guided bombs, ballistic and anti‑ship missiles, thousands of strike drones, artillery and rocket fire.
- Ukraine’s air‑defence units reported shooting down an Oniks anti‑ship missile, seven Iskander/KN‑23 ballistic missiles, multiple S8000 ‘Banderol’ munitions and roughly 222 to several hundred attack drones during the assault.
- Strikes hit civilian and industrial targets including a Kharkiv shopping centre, a Roshen warehouse in Kyiv region and the Zaporizhstal plant, causing deaths, injuries and major material damage while emergency crews fight fires and clear wreckage.
- The attacks have disrupted transport and supply chains — trains were delayed by more than 11 hours in places and port and metallurgical damage now adds new strain to Ukraine’s export routes and factory output.
- The assault produced cross‑border effects and wider concern: five drones entered Moldova’s airspace, reporting linked a Berlin arms cache to an alleged Russia‑controlled network, and U.S. officials warned that American firms in Ukraine have been targeted, increasing pressure on partners to speed up air‑defence deliveries.