Ukraine launched a wave of drone strikes on Russia's Independence Day, hitting three major logistics hubs belonging to Ozon, Russia's second-largest online retailer, while also attempting to strike a military cosmodrome. The attacks coincided with British Prime Minister Andy Burnham's first foreign trip since taking office, a visit to Kyiv where he pledged continued UK support and shared details of long-range missile technology, underlining the deepening rift between London and Moscow.

Fires broke out at Ozon facilities in Makhachkala, Krasnodar and elsewhere in southern Russia, with the company reporting several people wounded but no threat to life, while warehouses in Adygeysk and Nevinnomyssk were evacuated as a precaution. The strikes follow weeks of Ukrainian attacks on rival retailer Wildberries and are said to have caused billions of dollars in economic damage by targeting lightly defended civilian-linked infrastructure. Separately, NATO scrambled Romanian F-16s after a suspected Russian drone crossed into its airspace, and Russia recalled its ambassador from London, describing UK relations as being at "an unprecedentedly low level" amid warnings over British-linked drone strikes.