Ukraine says Russian attack kills five people in Zaporizhzhia
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- Russia struck Zaporizhzhia with glide bombs, killing 5 people and injuring 11 (with the count rising), destroying and damaging residential and non-residential buildings, per Regional Governor Ivan Fedorov.
- Zelenskyy warned in his nightly address that Russia was preparing a 'massive attack,' urging Ukrainians to heed air raid warnings 'tonight and in the coming hours.'
- Kharkiv was hit by a guided aerial bomb that killed 1 person and wounded 9; Mayor Ihor Terekhov reported a woman was trapped under the rubble of a destroyed residential building.
- In Kherson region's Zelenivka, a drone strike wounded a 72-year-old woman, per local authorities.
- Zelenskyy confirmed Ukrainian armed forces struck an oil refinery in Russia's Tyumen region in western Siberia.
- Russia's Defence Ministry said its air defences shot down 187 Ukrainian fixed-wing drones overnight, two days after Ukraine's biggest drone attack on Moscow hit a major oil refinery and forced evacuations at the country's largest airport.
Why it matters: Russia struck at least three Ukrainian cities in a single day while Zelenskyy warned of a 'massive attack' still pending, signaling an escalation in tempo. Ukraine is retaliating in kind, striking a refinery in western Siberia and launching its largest-ever drone barrage on Moscow, meaning both sides are now hitting each other's strategic infrastructure in parallel.
