Overview
- Russia launched a multi-pronged attack with 34 missiles and roughly 392 long-range drones, culminating in a large daytime strike Tuesday that hit Lviv’s historic center and other regions with confirmed deaths and injuries.
- Ukraine said its air defenses downed 23 cruise missiles, two guided air missiles, and neutralized 365 drones, yet officials still reported damage across 11 regions including fires in apartment blocks and power facilities.
- Ukraine answered with long-range drones that Russian authorities said they intercepted across 13 regions, with a fire confirmed at the Ust-Luga Baltic oil port and widespread outages that left about 450,000 people without power in Belgorod.
- Analysts estimate recent Ukrainian strikes have idled at least 40% of Russia’s western oil export capacity by hitting the Primorsk and Ust-Luga ports and targeting parts of the Druzhba pipeline that supplies Central Europe.
- In Lviv, a drone struck the 17th‑century St. Andrew’s church and Bernardine monastery complex protected by UNESCO, sending 22 people to hospitals and prompting fresh pleas from Kyiv for additional air-defense munitions.