Overview
- Ukraine’s air force said it downed or jammed 111 of 139 Russian attack drones launched since Tuesday evening, with the overnight barrage killing eight people in Dnipropetrovsk region.
- President Volodymyr Zelensky warned on Wednesday that more than 100 Russian drones were in Ukrainian airspace and cautioned that further daytime waves could follow targeting rail and civilian sites.
- Ukrainian drones reportedly struck port infrastructure in the village of Volna in Russia’s Krasnodar region on Wednesday, igniting a fire near oil facilities that regional officials and NASA’s FIRMS heat data indicated, with at least one person injured.
- Regional authorities in Russia said debris from another Ukrainian drone caused a fire at a gas processing plant in Astrakhan, while the Defense Ministry claimed air defenses intercepted 286 Ukrainian drones over several regions and nearby seas overnight.
- The latest strikes extend a weeks‑long campaign in which Ukraine targets refineries, pipelines, and export terminals to squeeze Moscow’s energy revenue, as both sides issue conflicting interception counts that outside sensors can only partly corroborate.