Overview

• A Russian overnight drone strike triggered air defenses over Kyiv, with debris damaging the capital’s trolleybus network, city officials said.
• NATO confirmed the first Purl-financed shipment of U.S.-made weapons has reached Ukraine, with additional packages funded and en route.
• Vladimir Putin said more than 700,000 Russian troops are deployed along the Ukrainian front line, the Kremlin’s most explicit figure to date.
• Ukraine’s General Staff reported total Russian military deaths at about 1,099,530 since 2022, a figure not independently verified.
• Poland is investigating whether damage to a house in Wyryki was caused by a malfunctioning AIM-120 fired by a Polish F-16, as NATO steps up eastern-flank reinforcement operations.