Overview
- Ukraine’s Air Force tracked 559 inbound threats and reported neutralizing 503 targets, including 474 attack drones and 29 missiles, with the main axis directed at Kyiv.
- Authorities confirmed at least two fatalities in Kyiv and the region and 32 injured in the capital, with power and heat outages affecting about 600,000 subscribers and critical sites on backup supply.
- Residential high-rises across multiple districts sustained damage, a ministry building was hit, fires were contained, 68 people were evacuated from a care facility, and rescuers searched rubble for a missing person.
- Frontline fighting remained intense with 237–258 daily engagements reported, led by heavy clashes on the Lyman and Pokrovsk axes, as Ukrainian forces repelled dozens of assaults across several sectors.
- President Volodymyr Zelensky called for faster air-defense support, EU officials condemned the strikes, and Ukrainian authorities reported an FSB-linked assassination plot foiled in Kyiv and indictments sent to court in the Kupiansk torture case as a former regional SBU chief was detained.