Russian or Ukrainian information on details of individual attacks and the number of injured and killed cannot currently be independently verified.
According to its own statements, Russia has taken over two more towns in Ukraine. The Russian Defense Ministry said they were Novosolozhyne in the southeastern Zaporizhzhia region and Andriivska Hromada in the Donetsk region.
According to Ukrainian information, four crew members were injured in a Russian attack on a civilian ship in the southern Ukrainian region of Odessa. The ship is flying the flag of Togo, the region's military governor, Oleh Kiper, said on Telegram. Three of the injured were taken to a hospital.
The attack started fires, which have since been extinguished. Kiper did not provide any information about the exact location or type of weapon used. The Russian Defense Ministry confirmed attacks on targets in the region.
According to authorities, a woman was killed in a Ukrainian drone attack in the southern Russian region of Astrakhan. The attack hit an industrial facility, the local governor said. He initially did not provide any further information.
In the west of the Zaporizhzhia region, Russian soldiers have occupied the settlements of Olenokostiantynivka and Selene, which are located northwest of the city of Hulyaipole. This is reported by the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) in its current situation report. According to ISW, the advance enabled an attempted Russian offensive with armored vehicles south of the village of Vozdvyshivka.
Ukrainian forces also advanced east of the city of Slovyansk in the Donetsk region to the settlement of Ozerne. At the same time, local authorities reported an intensification of Russian attacks with glide bombs on cities in the so-called Ukrainian fortress belt, including Slovyansk, Kramatorsk and Druzhkivka.
According to Ukrainian information, Russia attacked the port in the Izmail district of the Odessa region. The authorities said on Telegram that fires broke out and have now been extinguished.
Izmail is located near the Romanian border. The largest Ukrainian port on the Danube is located there.
According to Russian authorities, six people were killed in a Ukrainian rocket attack on the border region of Belgorod. Four other people were injured, including a 14-year-old child. This was announced by the acting governor of the region, Alexander Shuvayev.
The European Union wants to significantly tighten its sanctions against Russia in the coming months. EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas told the Welt newspaper. The sanctions have already cost Russia more than a trillion euros, said Kallas. The sanctions package planned for autumn is the most far-reaching since the beginning of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine. The pressure on Russia must be increased until the country ends the war, said Kallas.
At least 19 people have been killed in mutual nighttime drone and missile attacks in Russia and Ukraine.
In the southern Russian region of Rostov, Ukrainian drones killed five people in a residential area, according to Governor Yuri Slyussar. According to authorities, three more people died in the Belgorod, Kursk and Moscow regions. In addition, three people were killed in Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine.
Ukrainian authorities said Russian missiles killed two people in the Zaporizhia region and one person in the border region of Sumy. A number of people were injured in Russian attacks in the region around the capital Kyiv as well as in Odessa in the south and Dnipropetrovsk further east of the country.
According to Ukrainian information, the Russian army also attacked a steelworks in Kryvyi Rih with drones and missiles. Two people were killed and 14 others were injured. The factory had to partially stop production. It is one of the largest steel mills in Ukraine and supplies the defense industry.
The Ukrainian military says it has attacked a rocket fuel production facility in Russia's Rostov region. "The company produces solid rocket fuel for multiple rocket launchers as well as for a range of missile systems and air-launched weapon systems," the Ukrainian military said on Telegram. Rostov is located in the south of Russia and borders Ukraine.
New Russian airstrikes in Ukraine have killed at least three people and injured more than 20 others, according to President Volodymyr Zelensky. Accordingly, there were two dead and 14 injured in the southern industrial city of Kryvyi Rih after a ballistic missile attack, as Zelenskyj announced on Telegram. One person was also killed in Sumy in the northeast of the country. Six people were injured in the capital Kyiv and the surrounding area.
The rockets also hit a book market in the capital. "Everywhere the Russians reach with their missiles, they attack civilian infrastructure," said the president. The fires caused by the attacks were quickly extinguished. "The emergency services are deployed at the sites of the morning and night Russian attacks," said Zelensky. He also warned of another wave of attacks.
According to Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, Ukraine attacked the region around the Russian capital Moscow with around 600 drones during the night. The air defense destroyed 201 of them, he wrote on Telegram. The governor of the Moscow region, Andrei Vorobyov, spoke of one of the largest attacks in recent times.
A man was killed when a drone fell onto his property. There were also several injuries in the Moscow area. According to authorities, at least three people died in a Ukrainian drone attack in the Rostov-on-Don region in southern Russia. Three people were injured in the town of Podolsk, around 40 kilometers from Moscow. In addition, a fire broke out in a warehouse of the largest Russian online mail order company, Wildberries, Vorobyov said on Telegram. In the city of Domodedovo, a warehouse with medicines also caught fire. Several residential buildings there were also damaged. There is also damage to civil infrastructure in other towns, including a school.
According to Ukraine, Russia attacked Kyiv again during the night with ballistic missiles, glide bombs and drones. Targets included the capital and the industrial cities of Kremenchuk and Kryvyi Rih.
A Spanish F-18 fighter jet shot down a drone over Romania as part of a NATO mission. The NATO member borders Ukraine. The Romanian Defense Ministry said the drone had illegally violated national airspace. It is the fourth drone shot down this year. The ministry did not provide any information about the origin. The radars located the drone as it entered Romanian airspace from neighboring Moldova.
Over the past four years, Romanian airspace has been repeatedly violated by Russian drones. In July, Romanian F-16 fighter jets shot down three Russian drones for the first time. This year, a Russian drone also crashed into an apartment block in the town of Galati, near the border with Ukraine, injuring two people. Romania has a 600 kilometer long border with Ukraine.
Several explosions were heard overnight in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv. This was reported by a reporter from the AFP news agency. Mayor Vitali Klitschko announced on the Telegram online service that the city was being attacked with “ballistic missiles”. He called on the population to seek shelter. Several fires broke out as a result of the attacks. According to the city's military administration, one person was injured.
According to Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrainian military attacked the Progress missile and space center in Samara, Russia. Flamingo cruise missiles hit the missile factory located around 900 kilometers from the Ukrainian border, the Ukrainian president said on Telegram. Ukrainian forces also shelled Zavasleika military airfield, a base for Russian fighter jets in the Nizhny Novgorod region.
According to Zelensky, the aim of the attacks is to increase pressure on Russia to end the war. "It is important that Russia's war potential is reduced," the president wrote on X.
The Ukrainian army has attacked Russian oil infrastructure in Ust-Luga, west of Saint Petersburg, according to President Volodymyr Zelensky. Zelensky did not name the facility in the statement on Telegram, but said it had been damaged. In addition, Ukraine shelled a Russian missile and space center in Samara and a military air base in Nizhny Novgorod, Zelensky said.
