Overview
- President Volodymyr Zelensky warned Saturday that Russia was preparing a large-scale aerial assault and urged civilians to follow air-raid alerts.
- Russian strikes and glide-bomb attacks have intensified on the front, with heavy fighting reported around Pokrovsk and recent strikes killing and wounding civilians in Zaporizhzhia, Poltava, Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv and Sumy.
- Kyiv has stepped up medium- and long-range attacks on Russian energy and logistics, with officials saying drones hit refineries in Russia and targeted supply nodes around the Kerch area to degrade Crimea’s resupply routes.
- Authorities in Russian-occupied Crimea suspended fuel sales and reported partial power outages after strikes, producing rationing for civilians and limiting fuel to essential services.
- Both sides report large drone and loitering-munition activity with contested tallies of shootdowns, and analysts say the reciprocal strikes risk further disruption to civilian life and wider escalation of aerial campaigns.