Overview
- Ukrainian officials reported roughly 450 attack drones and 45 missiles were launched, striking power plants and other infrastructure across nine regions.
- Centerenergo said generation capacity collapsed to zero and grid operator Ukrenergo imposed 8–16 hour cuts in multiple regions, including Kyiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Kharkiv, Poltava, Chernihiv and Sumy.
- A drone hit a nine‑story apartment block in Dnipro, killing at least two people and injuring others, as authorities counted about 10 dead and nearly 50 wounded nationwide over 24 hours.
- Ukraine’s air force said it downed the majority of drones but intercepted only nine missiles, citing the difficulty of stopping ballistic and aero‑ballistic weapons as Kyiv presses for more Patriot systems after the U.S. rejected a Tomahawk request last month.
- Russia said it targeted military and energy sites in response to Ukrainian actions, while Ukraine stepped up strikes on Russian energy assets, including a substation in Volgograd, and called for an IAEA board meeting over reported hits on nuclear‑plant substations.