Overview
- Ukrenergo and Centerenergo said the latest attacks temporarily reduced national electricity generation to zero, disrupting heat and water in multiple cities.
- Ukraine reported a large-scale assault with about 458 drones and 45 ballistic missiles, with air defenses downing most drones but only nine missiles.
- Officials announced daily outages of roughly 8–16 hours across most regions, with Kyiv facing up to 12 hours, and urged residents to ration power.
- The government said substations tied to the Khmelnytskyi and Rivne nuclear plants were among the targets, with no confirmed strikes on those facilities.
- Authorities reported multiple civilian deaths, and Russian border regions including Voronezh and Belgorod also reported damage and outages from cross-border incidents.