Overview
- Ukraine reports widespread outages across Kharkiv, Zhytomyr and the Kyiv region, with hundreds of apartment blocks in the capital still without heat in subzero temperatures.
- London’s package targets repair, restoration and protection of the grid to keep households, hospitals and schools supplied during winter following Zelenskyy’s emergency declaration.
- Ukraine’s General Staff says Russia employed more than 8,000 kamikaze drones in a single day and claims over 900 were destroyed, figures not independently verified.
- NATO chief Mark Rutte cited 20,000–25,000 Russian soldiers killed each month, while a UK Defence Ministry assessment estimates over 1.1 million cumulative battlefield losses and roughly 1,000 daily killed or wounded.
- Frontline clashes remain heavy around Pokrovsk and other eastern sectors, and a Russian drone strike in Lviv damaged a playground near residences with no injuries reported.