Overview
- Ukrenergo ordered emergency power cuts across most regions, with knock-on disruptions to water and heating services.
- DTEK said several thermal power plants were damaged, and a separate strike on the Sloviansk TPP killed two people, according to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
- Ukraine reported shooting down hundreds of incoming threats, with official tallies citing more than 600 aerial targets destroyed during the combined salvo.
- Officials reported civilian deaths and dozens of injuries, including a seven-year-old girl, as later attacks also wounded residents in Sumy.
- Poland scrambled allied jets and briefly closed the Radom and Lublin airports as western Ukraine came under attack near the NATO border.