Overview

• Russia unleashed more than 100 drones overnight—the heaviest single-day toll in weeks—capping a record weekly campaign of about 1,270 drones, 39 missiles and nearly 1,000 glide bombs.
• The barrage killed at least 10 civilians and wounded 38 others, including children, across Kharkiv, Kyiv’s Vyshhorod district, Sumy and Odesa despite high interception rates.
• Kharkiv endured two morning waves that injured 31 people in the Shevchenkivskyi and Slobidskyi districts and 16 more in the Kholodnohirskyi district, damaging apartment blocks, markets and a kindergarten.
• Investigators in Vyshhorod district opened a criminal case under Article 438 of Ukraine’s code after drones struck homes, a preschool, warehouses and vehicles.
• President Zelenskyy and other leaders are urging Western partners to accelerate air-defence deliveries and invest in domestic interceptor drone production.