Overview

• Guided bombs struck Kharkiv, knocking out power for roughly 30,000 customers and damaging a hospital, with officials later reporting dozens injured and electricity restored to the city.
• Ukrainian drones hit an oil terminal in occupied Feodosiia, igniting a massive blaze that local authorities acknowledged and Ukrainian sources said destroyed at least five fuel tanks and damaged substations.
• Ukraine’s General Staff recorded 149 combat engagements in the past day, with the heaviest fighting on the Pokrovsk and Oleksandrohrad fronts and ten Ukrainian strikes on Russian troop and equipment clusters.
• Eastern sectors saw a 25–30% increase in Russian fire strikes over the last ten days, according to Ukraine’s East Group, which reported heavy Russian losses in its area of responsibility.
• Zelensky said Russia launched 96 attack drones overnight focused on energy sites and pressed NATO countries to provide Patriot, NASAMS, and SAMP/T systems to blunt the aerial campaign.