Overnight Helsingin Sanomat led with an investigation showing Finns' phone location data bought from grey markets exposed soldiers' routes, MPs' homes and the president's inner circle.

By dawn focus moved to the eastern Baltic. Explosions were reported over St. Petersburg as Russia said dozens of Ukrainian drones were downed, with hits on an oil terminal and VK's data centre, one dead and flights disrupted; a Helsinki-bound flight returned. Lithuania and parts of Latvia sounded air alerts, later found likely drone debris, for which Ukraine apologized. The Defence Forces restricted air and sea areas in the Gulf of Finland.

Washington resumed intelligence sharing with Kyiv, while Yle's MOT reported two Finnish citizens sold tens of millions in electronics usable in Russian missiles and experts warned a Russian satellite deliberately approached an Iceye satellite. In the evening attention returned to France, where detentions passed 2,000 and Macron condemned unrestrained violence.