Overview
- Ukraine’s Air Force said surveillance tracked 632 aerial assets — 36 missiles and 596 drones — and that air defenses shot down or suppressed 577 of them.
- Authorities reported two deaths in the capital and one in the wider Kyiv region, with dozens injured in Kyiv including a 13-year-old child and damage across multiple districts.
- The energy grid was a primary target, leaving more than 500,000 consumers in Kyiv without electricity, over 100,000 in the surrounding region, and about 8,000 in Kharkiv.
- Poland scrambled fighter jets and activated air-defense assets as explosions and intercepts over Kyiv continued for hours, with debris and confirmed drone strikes recorded at numerous locations.
- A Ukrainian delegation led by Rustem Umerov departed for talks in the United States following Andriy Yermak’s resignation, while Kyiv reported strikes on Russian oil infrastructure and claimed hits on two Black Sea ‘shadow fleet’ tankers, a claim not independently verified.