- A Russian guided bomb struck next to passenger-filled public buses in the eastern Ukrainian city of Krematorsk, killing 30 people and wounding at least 18 others while rescue efforts were hindered by small drone strikes.
- The death toll from a separate Russian missile strike a day earlier in the northern town of Pryluky has risen to 22, including five children, with at least 54 people injured as emergency services continue searching the rubble.
- Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky warned that Russia will likely escalate daily aerial attacks as winter approaches, appealing to NATO allies for concrete defence packages, anti-ballistic capabilities, and aircraft ammunition.
- Moscow's ongoing campaign against energy infrastructure has triggered emergency power outages in Kyiv, while Ukraine retaliated with drone strikes targeting a Yandex data centre in Ryazan and a major Russian oil refinery in Salavat.
- Amid wider regional security concerns, Turkey has presented proposals to protect commercial shipping in the Black Sea, and Lithuania has deployed 100 additional troops to secure its border with the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad.
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