Overview
- Ukraine’s air force reported that Russia launched 268 attack drones and one Iskander ballistic missile overnight into Sunday, and defenders shot down or suppressed 249 of the UAVs across multiple regions.
- Russian strikes killed civilians and hit infrastructure, with a drone attack on a Kherson minibus on Saturday leaving two dead and seven injured, and separate attacks in Odesa killing two people and damaging port facilities, officials said.
- Ukrainian drones struck the Baltic Sea oil terminal at Primorsk on Sunday, starting a fire that was put out with no reported spill as Leningrad region authorities said more than 60 drones were downed over the area.
- President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Ukrainian forces hit two “shadow fleet” tankers near the entrance to Novorossiysk, describing the vessels as part of Russia’s workaround for sanctions on its oil exports.
- Fighting on the ground stayed intense, with Ukraine’s General Staff logging 141 combat clashes on Saturday, most in the Pokrovsk area, in what both sides frame as a contest between massed drone attacks and strikes on energy and logistics to sap each other’s war effort.