Daily brief
Ukraine struck three Russian warships in occupied Crimea and attacked multiple oil depots, refineries, and a Baltic Sea port in a coordinated drone operation involving the SBU and General Staff. The strikes caused fires at several facilities, including an oil depot in Crimea. Russia reported downing 568 Ukrainian drones and one HIMARS rocket over the past day.
A Moscow-born gunman killed six people in a Kyiv supermarket in what investigators are examining as a possible terrorist attack, with probes looking into whether Russia directed the incident.
Russia and Armenia agreed to implement military-technical agreements, while Ukraine's intelligence chief said Russia is boosting military readiness in Transnistria.
The Belgian defense chief said the EU must be ready to fight Russia without the US by 2030, as a veteran US diplomat argued Moscow is falling back on Soviet-style escalation tactics amid stalled battlefield gains.
A pact allowing India and Russia to station 3,000 troops, five warships, and ten aircraft in each other's territory came into effect.