A Russian Shahed drone strike targeted a Coca-Cola manufacturing plant in Brovary, located just outside Kyiv, in what President Volodymyr Zelensky described as a clear signal to America.
Speaking in his nightly address, Zelensky noted that the strike on a facility operated by a major United States firm set the plant on fire, with the company currently working alongside relevant authorities to assess the situation.
Simultaneous strikes heavily impacted civilian infrastructure and residential quarters across Odesa, Zaporizhzhia, and Kropyvnytskyi. In Odesa, a residential strike destroyed apartments spanning the sixth through eighth floors of a nine-story building, killing one person and injuring five others while damaging surrounding facades and 28 parked vehicles. Zaporizhzhia faced 890 attacks across 49 settlements over the previous day, resulting in one fatality and four injuries after multi-story residential blocks caught fire. In Kropyvnytskyi, emergency services responded to strikes that ignited the roof of a residential tower, damaged an infrastructure facility, and injured one civilian who was subsequently hospitalized.
These events formed part of a massive aerial assault launched overnight by the Russian military, which deployed a guided Kh-31P air-to-missile from the Black Sea alongside 121 strike and decoy unmanned aerial vehicles, including jet-powered Shaheds, Gerbera systems, Parodiya decoys, and S8000 Banderol drones. Launch vectors included Millerovo, Orel, and Kursk within Russia, as well as the temporarily occupied territories of Donetsk and Hvardiiske in Crimea. Ukrainian Air Force formations, including aviation, anti-aircraft missile troops, electronic warfare units, and mobile fire groups, intercepted, shot down, or suppressed 103 aerial targets across northern, southern, eastern, and central regions, while impacts and falling debris were recorded across multiple locations.
