Overview
- Ukrainian authorities reported strikes across many districts that damaged high‑rise residential buildings and left at least 12 people injured, including a pregnant woman.
- Air defenses were active over the capital, with AFP journalists hearing powerful blasts and observing interceptors targeting drones and missiles.
- Fires broke out in multiple neighborhoods, and emergency services responded as damage to heating lines left parts of the Desniansky district temporarily without heat.
- Mayor Vitali Klitschko urged residents to shelter, and preliminary reports said debris struck a five‑storey residential building in the Dniprovsky district.
- Nearby Irpin reported multiple Shahed drones and missiles overhead, while Russian authorities said a Ukrainian drone attack hit the Black Sea port of Novorossiisk, damaging a refinery and a civilian ship and injuring crew members.