Overview
- Russia's Defense Ministry said it used hypersonic Oreshnik missiles in a mass strike on critical targets in Ukraine, describing the action as retaliation for an attack on President Vladimir Putin's residence.
- Reports from Kyiv and Lviv described multiple explosions, and Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said critical infrastructure was damaged with power outages in some districts.
- EU High Representative Kaja Kallas called for member states to draw on their air-defense inventories and deliver systems to Ukraine immediately.
- Russian official Kirill Dmitriev asserted on X that no air-defense system can intercept an Oreshnik reportedly flying at Mach 10 and criticized Kallas personally.
- Journalist Thomas Fazi and Finnish professor Tuomas Malinen mocked Kallas's stance, and commentator Gilbert Doctorow argued Western systems such as Patriot would be ineffective, though the reports offered no independent verification of the missile's performance.