Overview
- Following Wednesday night's mass launch, Ukraine said Russia fired one Iskander-M ballistic missile and 206 attack drones, of which 172 were shot down or suppressed.
- Odesa saw the heaviest damage with high-rises and a five-story block on fire, a kindergarten and a mall hit, and at least 18 people wounded including two in intensive care.
- In Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, officials first reported two dead and one injured over the past day, then said a later strike in Dnipro killed one person and wounded at least 11, destroying a bus and damaging nearby homes and cars.
- Local authorities tallied at least four killed and 64 injured across multiple regions over the past day, with strikes reported in Donetsk, Kharkiv, Sumy, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson, and power outages in parts of Mykolaiv after hits on energy and transport sites.
- Ukraine reports interception rates rising toward 90 percent and says interceptor drones now down about 40 percent of Shahed-type UAVs, even as Russia fields faster jet-powered variants that push constant upgrades to Ukraine’s counter-drones.