Overview
- Following Tuesday's overnight missile‑and‑drone barrage, Ukraine said Russia launched 11 ballistic missiles and 164 attack UAVs, and air defences reported downing or disabling one ballistic missile and 149 drones across multiple regions.
- In the Poltava region, a second strike hit a gas‑extraction site while crews fought a fire, killing two emergency rescuers and others and leaving at least five dead and dozens wounded, according to officials and Naftogaz.
- Zaporizhzhia suffered four guided‑bomb strikes and drone attacks that killed 12 people and injured at least 37, and regional authorities reported another strike on industrial infrastructure early Wednesday with no casualties.
- Ukraine’s General Staff logged 149 combat engagements on Monday and 155 on Tuesday, with the heaviest ground fighting on the Pokrovsk axis, where 34 Russian assaults were counted, and along the Huliaipole sector in Zaporizhzhia.
- Ukraine extended deep strikes into Russia as regional officials and monitors reported a fire at the Kirishi refinery near St. Petersburg and damage at the VNIIR‑Progress plant in Cheboksary, and President Volodymyr Zelensky said F‑5 Flamingo cruise missiles hit a military‑industrial target more than 1,500 kilometers away.