1. Ukraine: Russia launched 165 drones and 16 ballistic missiles overnight, killing at least 14 people across Kyiv, Kharkiv, and Khmelnytskyi regions. Ukrainian air defenses downed or suppressed 115 UAVs. Source: SOFX, Ukrainian Air Force.
2. Ukraine: A Russian drone strike on a park in Nova Vodolaha, Kharkiv region, killed six people including an infant and an 11-year-old girl, wounding 15 others. Source: SOFX.
3. Ukraine: Ukrainian forces used a heavy-lift drone for the first time to evacuate a wounded soldier who had spent 500 days alone at a front-line position. Source: SOFX, Militarnyi.
4. Ukraine: A Russian drone attack on the Kyiv-Odesa highway near Chabany killed three people and injured four, with a drone fragment fatally striking a bus driver. Source: UkraineNow, Kyiv Regional Administration.
5. Ukraine: Russian strikes on Dnipro warehouses killed two people, and an airstrike on Kramatorsk killed three thermal power plant workers inspecting heating networks. Source: noel_reports, UkraineNow.
6. Ukraine: Ukrainian drones struck the Nikolskoye oil pumping station in Russia’s Tambov Oblast, a key node of the Druzhba pipeline, causing a large fire. Source: ASTRA, noel_reports.
7. Ukraine: Russia is preparing a massive combined strike, with a third Tu-160M strategic bomber redeploying to Engels-2 airbase to be equipped with Kh-101 cruise missiles. Source: AMK_Mapping, eRadarrua.
8. Middle East: The IRGC shot down a US MQ-9 drone over the Strait of Hormuz, claiming it was the 54th such UAV destroyed. Source: ClashReport, FotrosResistancee.
9. Middle East: Houthi ballistic missiles struck a training camp in Shabwa, Yemen, killing at least 53 recruits in the deadliest single strike since September. Source: SOFX.
10. Middle East: The IRGC said two oil tankers caught fire after striking naval mines in the Strait of Hormuz, as Iran threatens undersea cables. Source: ClashReport, FARS.
11. NATO: Poland launched aircraft for the third time in a day due to a UAV threat from Ukraine, with one drone crossing the border. Source: Slavyangrad.
12. NATO: Lithuania is putting US-made AN/TPS-77 radars into service on NATO’s eastern edge, feeding data into the alliance’s integrated air defense network. Source: Defence24.
13. China/Asia: South Korea is withdrawing part of its embassy staff from Ukraine amid a dispute over Kyiv’s disclosure of North Korean POWs’ transfer to Seoul. Source: Yonhap, noel_reports.
14. Cyberattacks: Hackers breached the infrastructure of Russian hosting provider FirstVDS via a vulnerability in VMmanager 6, potentially accessing data from over 10,000 servers. Source: Mediazona.
15. Troop movements: Russia’s Defense Ministry reported strikes on logistics centers in Khmelnytskyi and Kovel, and on four cargo ships in the Black Sea and port of Reni. Source: Russian MoD, voenkorKotenok.
16. Sanctions: The Trump administration is allowing investors to buy sanctioned oil tankers to resume legal shipping, according to US Energy Secretary Chris Wright. Source: Bloomberg, Slavyangrad.
17. Ukraine: Zelensky proposed a 30-day pause on strikes on Russian oil refineries in exchange for Patriot missiles, but Witkoff and Kushner showed no interest. Source: Axios, operativnoZSU.
18. Middle East: The IDF announced the establishment of a new military Space Division to position Israel as a leading global power in the space domain. Source: TheWarReporter.
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