Overview
- Ukraine said Russian forces kept firing overnight into Friday, reporting more than 140 shellings and 10 assaults, as air defenses shot down 56 of 67 attack drones.
- Russian officials claimed mass drone interceptions, while local footage and Ukraine’s security service pointed to fires at the Yaroslavl oil refinery, damage around Rostov, and new strikes on a major refinery and a pumping station in Perm.
- The Institute for the Study of War said Moscow’s unilateral truce functions as coercive messaging, noting threats to hit decision centers in Kyiv and a call for embassies to evacuate that France, Germany, and Estonia rejected.
- Ukraine’s commander-in-chief said Russia is rushing extra air-defense and anti-drone units to protect Moscow and the south, a redeployment experts say could thin coverage elsewhere and open space for more deep strikes.
- Inside Ukraine, attacks knocked out power in parts of Kharkiv, Sumy, Zaporizhzhia, and Chernihiv and injured three people in Dnipropetrovsk region, while the SBU said it detained two suspects in a Dnipro car bombing it links to Russia.