Overview
- Ukraine, which weathered one of the year’s largest drone-and-missile barrages Thursday, reports at least 19 dead and more than 100 wounded across Kyiv, Odesa, Dnipro and Zaporizhzhia, with apartment blocks burned and medics and police among the injured.
- Ukrainian authorities said Russia launched 659 drones and 44 missiles in 24 hours and acknowledged that some Iskander‑M ballistic missiles were not intercepted, underscoring a shortage of anti‑ballistic interceptors.
- President Volodymyr Zelensky used visits to Germany, Norway, Italy and the Netherlands to press for Patriot PAC‑2 and IRIS‑T missiles, as Berlin pledged more interceptors and Dutch leaders agreed to deepen cooperation on drone production.
- Russia’s Defense Ministry published a list naming European companies it says supply drone technology, including Spain’s UAV Navigation (Grupo Oesía), and Dmitri Medvedev called those sites “potential targets,” prompting fresh concern for defense industry facilities in Europe.
- Romania said a Russian drone briefly entered its airspace near the Danube during strikes near the border, a spillover that keeps NATO members on alert even as Russia and Ukraine trade long‑range attacks.