Overview
- Ukraine reports 476 attack drones and 48 missiles launched overnight, with air defenses neutralizing 442 drones and 41 cruise missiles as strikes hit energy and civilian sites in multiple regions.
- Ternopil authorities confirm 16 dead and at least 64 injured, including children, while Kharkiv reports 46 wounded and damage to 16 apartment blocks and other infrastructure.
- Army Secretary Dan Driscoll and General Randy George arrived for meetings with President Volodymyr Zelensky and senior officials, with reporting indicating goals that include reviving talks and expanding drone and autonomous systems cooperation.
- Senator Lindsey Graham says Congress is advancing a bipartisan sanctions package targeting buyers of Russian energy, and Reuters reports the White House may sign it if presidential decision authority over sanctions is preserved.
- Ukraine’s parliament moved to question senior officials and began dismissal procedures for the justice and energy ministers after an anti‑corruption probe, while Romania scrambled jets over a drone incursion and Moldova lodged a protest over a breach of its airspace.