Overview
- Local officials reported at least 10 dead and 48 injured in Kyiv, with authorities warning the toll could rise as rescue work continues.
- Kyiv’s administration said Russia used decoy drones, cruise missiles and ballistic missiles, hitting at least 20 locations and damaging nearly 100 buildings, including a downtown shopping center.
- Ukraine’s Air Force described one of the war’s largest overnight barrages, reporting 598 attack and decoy drones and 31 missiles launched nationwide and saying most were intercepted, including 26 missiles.
- Russia’s Defense Ministry said it shot down 102 Ukrainian drones overnight and local officials reported refinery fires at Afipsky in Krasnodar and Novokuibyshevsk in Samara after drone strikes.
- The assault was the first major combined attack on the capital since the recent Trump–Putin meeting, as President Volodymyr Zelensky pressed for tougher U.S. sanctions and continued efforts to secure a Putin–Zelensky summit venue.