Overview
- Monday saw heavy cross‑border attacks that killed and wounded civilians in Russia’s Belgorod and Tatarstan regions and in Ukraine’s Kharkiv and Odesa, with regional officials reporting destroyed apartment blocks and damage to port and energy facilities.
- Kyiv has stepped up a 40‑day deep‑strike campaign ordered by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy that used upgraded long‑range drones to hit Russian oil refineries, logistics hubs and commercial sites including Wildberries warehouses.
- Moscow has responded with mass missile and drone barrages that Ukraine says included dozens of ballistic missiles and more than 1,500 attack drones in a week, and Russian officials have claimed large numbers of Ukrainian drones were intercepted.
- Sustained salvos on both sides are exhausting interceptor stocks for systems such as Patriot and prompting Kyiv to press Western partners for more missiles and for licences to produce them locally.
- The attacks are causing direct humanitarian harm, including the destruction of a WHO medical warehouse in Dnipro, and create wider risks to global fuel supplies and Ukraine’s grain exports by damaging refineries and the Odesa port.