Overview
- Ukrainian officials said Russia launched more than 450 drones and 45 missiles overnight, with the air force reporting 406 drones and nine missiles downed as dozens of strikes still hit 25 sites.
- Energy facilities in Kyiv, Kharkiv and Poltava regions were damaged, forcing emergency outages as cities such as Kremenchuk and Horishni Plavni relied on generators and state firm Centrenergo reported plants knocked offline.
- A drone struck a residential block in Dnipro, killing at least three and injuring a dozen, while updated tallies from multiple regions put the nationwide death toll at no fewer than seven.
- Intense urban combat continued in and around Pokrovsk in eastern Donetsk, as Russia claimed advances and encirclements that could not be independently verified and Ukrainian forces reported ongoing counteractions.
- President Volodymyr Zelensky called for expanded sanctions targeting Russian energy and more air-defense systems, while Russia’s Defense Ministry said it conducted a massive strike on weapons production and energy sites in response to Ukrainian attacks; Ukraine’s foreign minister said substations powering two nuclear plants were targeted and urged IAEA attention.