Overview

• Ukraine’s air force reported 465 strike and decoy drones and 32 missiles launched overnight, with defenses intercepting or jamming 405 drones and 15 missiles.
• A seven-year-old boy was killed in the Zaporizhzhia region and more than 20 people were injured nationwide, including at least 12 in Kyiv where a high-rise caught fire.
• Grid operator Ukrenergo said the toughest conditions are in Kyiv and the Kyiv, Kharkiv, Sumy, Poltava and Chernihiv regions, where emergency power cuts were introduced to stabilize the system.
• Restoration advanced through the morning, with power returned to 270,000 customers in Kyiv and special emergency outage schedules lifted in Kharkiv, Poltava and Sumy.
• Prime Minister Yuliia Svyrydenko called the strike one of the most concentrated on energy infrastructure since 2022, and President Volodymyr Zelensky urged partners to deliver air-defense systems and tighten sanctions.