Overview
- Ukraine’s energy minister said a massive drone-and-missile assault targeted power infrastructure, forcing emergency outages across multiple regions.
- Rescuers reported one person killed and at least 11 injured after a strike tore through a nine‑storey residential building in Dnipro, destroying several apartments and igniting a fire.
- Kyiv officials reported fires from falling drone debris in the Pecherskyi district during the night attack, with air‑raid alerts activated across central and eastern regions.
- The General Staff recorded 181 combat engagements in 24 hours as Russian forces pressed assaults near Pokrovsk, while Moscow claimed control of Uspenivka in Zaporizhia.
- President Volodymyr Zelenskyy appointed Yuri Cherevashenko to lead drone air defences, and Ukrainian intelligence said a long‑range drone hit Russia’s Sterlitamak petrochemical plant.