Overview
- Ukraine’s air force reports 36 missiles and 242 drones launched, with defenses shooting down 18 missiles and 226 drones.
- Kyiv officials say at least four people were killed and multiple residential buildings were hit in the capital.
- Both Moscow and Kyiv confirm a hypersonic missile was used, and Ukraine’s security service says the Lviv region was hit by an Orechnik.
- Critical energy infrastructure in Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhzhia was damaged, leaving over one million households without heat, electricity or water as repairs proceed.
- Moscow frames the operation as retaliation for an alleged attack on a Russian presidential residence, which Kyiv denies, and the U.S. Embassy warned of possible further large-scale strikes.