Overview
- Ukraine reported the year’s largest barrage earlier this weekend, saying Russia launched 653 drones and 51 missiles that damaged energy and transport sites and briefly cut external power to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant.
- Overnight into Sunday, a fresh wave killed at least one person in Chernihiv and knocked out power and water in Kremenchuk, as authorities detailed wider heating and water disruptions in multiple regions.
- Kyiv said air defenses downed or neutralized hundreds of incoming weapons, and officials cited strikes on Russia’s Ryazan refinery, though independent outlets noted some videos from inside Russia have not been verified.
- After a third day of talks in Miami, U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner and Ukraine’s Rustem Umerov and Andrii Hnatov reported progress on a security framework but stated that real movement depends on concrete steps from Moscow.
- President Volodymyr Zelensky described a substantive call with the U.S. negotiators, and European leaders are expected to meet him in London on Monday as humanitarian risks grow with continued attacks on Ukraine’s energy network.