Overview
- Ukraine’s military, which reported the campaign Wednesday, said Russia launched more than 892 attack drones overall and air defenses destroyed or jammed 710 of them.
- Intelligence briefings warned that cruise and ballistic missiles could follow the drone waves, part of a sustained push to overload Ukraine’s air defenses.
- Defense advisers said Russia used a new tactic by sending dense streams of Shahed drones along the Belarus border about 5–10 kilometers inside Ukraine, with flight paths also routed via Belarus and Moldova.
- Local authorities reported hits across many regions with at least six people killed and dozens injured, including strikes on rail, energy and housing; in Ivano-Frankivsk a drone hit a high-rise and wounded ten people.
- Ukraine said it struck back at Russian energy infrastructure, confirming damage and fires at the Taman oil terminal in Krasnodar Krai, the Yaroslavl refinery and an Astrakhan gas-processing plant, while Hungary summoned Russia’s ambassador over drone hits in Zakarpattia.