Overview
- President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Thursday that Ukrainian long‑range forces struck the Bashneft‑Novoil refinery in Bashkortostan and the Slavneft‑YANOS refinery in Yaroslavl and also hit Russian patrol boats and shadow‑fleet vessels in the Black Sea.
- Russia’s Defence Ministry reported that its air defenses intercepted 605 Ukrainian drones overnight, reflecting a sharp rise in large‑scale drone salvos used by Kyiv.
- Russian missile and glide‑bomb attacks inside Ukraine killed six civilians in the Kharkiv and Sumy regions and damaged homes, transport hubs and a commercial ship carrying wheat in the Black Sea.
- Ukraine’s agriculture minister warned that continued hits on Odesa‑area ports could cost the sector between $1.5 billion and $3 billion because rail and river routes can handle at best half of prewar seaborne export volumes and will raise costs for farmers.
- The conflict is spilling into Europe, with an explosive drone found at Leipzig/Halle airport prompting a counterterror probe and NATO and EU members debating urgent transfers of interceptor missiles while Moscow accuses Western states of enabling Kyiv’s strikes.