Overview
- Ukraine’s General Staff said Wednesday night that its forces struck the Orenburg gas processing plant and two military satellite communications centres, causing fires and damage more than 1,000 kilometres inside Russia.
- President Volodymyr Zelensky said he ordered intelligence and military services to carry out preemptive attacks on facilities Russia uses to prosecute the war, a shift that formalises a more aggressive targeting posture.
- Russian officials reported shooting down large numbers of Ukrainian drones overnight, while Ukrainian sources gave different tallies and independent verification of interceptions and damage remains limited.
- The raids knocked out power in Sevastopol, damaged refineries that have already forced fuel rationing, and regional authorities reported civilian deaths and fires from falling drone debris in Bryansk and Krasnodar regions.
- Ukrainian strikes have prompted Russia to redeploy air‑defence assets to protect Moscow and the Kerch Bridge, Belarusian relay equipment Kyiv said has stopped operating, and partners face new pressure over long‑range aid as escalation risks rise.