Overview
- A large drone strike on Odesa overnight destroyed part of a high-rise, killing three people, including a child, and injuring ten, city and emergency officials said.
- Hours later, Russian drones hit Kharkiv’s Kyivskyi district near a bus stop and an apartment block, injuring at least three people, including a public transport driver, according to local authorities.
- Russia’s Defense Ministry said air defenses downed 87 drones over Russia and Crimea overnight, and Leningrad’s governor revised reports near Primorsk, a major Baltic oil port, from pipeline damage to a fuel tank hit.
- In the Nizhny Novgorod region, officials said falling debris set two units of Lukoil’s Kstovo refinery on fire and knocked out power in nearby towns, with no injuries reported.
- Ukraine’s Air Forces said they shot down 76 of 93 Russian drones launched at the country overnight, a pace of strikes that is straining air defenses and keeping civilians in shelters.