Overview
- Ukraine’s General Staff said Tuesday it hit the Tuapse refinery in Russia’s Krasnodar Krai with strike drones, reporting confirmed impacts and a fire at the site.
- The military reported 226 combat clashes over the past day, with defenders stopping 52 assault attempts toward the Pokrovsk area in Donetsk region.
- Ukraine’s Defense Ministry said its strike reach has grown to about 1,750 kilometers since 2022, a shift ISW links to overloaded Russian air defenses that let more deep strikes get through.
- Ukrenergo reported widespread outages in Sumy region on Tuesday after Russian drone attacks on power facilities, with repair crews working where conditions allow.
- Civilian areas came under fresh fire, with a mass drone attack on Odesa injuring about 13 people on Monday, and debris from a downed drone injuring one person in Kyiv on Tuesday.