Overview
- Ukraine’s interior minister said strikes across several regions killed 14 people and injured nearly 60, with the heaviest losses in Merefa in Kharkiv Oblast.
- Officials reported more than 70 attacks across the country, including hits on energy sites in Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, and Chernihiv regions.
- Ukraine’s Air Force said it shot down 249 of 268 drones launched by Russia, though debris and damaged weapons still caused harm when a downed missile struck a dorm in Dnipro.
- Russia’s Defense Ministry said air defenses downed 334 Ukrainian drones over 15 regions, while regional officials reported a 77-year-old killed in the Moscow region and a drone hitting a Moscow high-rise with no injuries.
- The Leningrad region governor confirmed and then reported extinguishing a fire at the port of Primorsk, as both sides described nightly salvos, decoy drones that sap air defenses, and tallies that remain hard to verify.