Overview
- Ukraine says air defenses knocked out roughly 150 of 186 attack drones during the operation that used Iskander-K cruise missiles and a large swarm of loitering munitions.
- The strikes caused at least nine confirmed civilian deaths and dozens of injuries and damaged homes and apartment buildings, with heavy hits reported in Kharkiv’s Novobavarskyi district and the village of Korotych.
- Academic buildings and dormitories at universities in Kyiv, Uman and Kremenchuk were damaged, and a Kremenchuk facility caught fire with several people hurt.
- Critical infrastructure was struck, including a Naftogaz gas-production site in Kharkiv Oblast and facilities in Dnipro that left about 30,000 consumers without power.
- Fighting on the front remained intense with Ukraine reporting 269 clashes over the day and Russia claiming limited territorial gains; those battlefield loss and gain figures are disputed and lack independent verification.