Overview

• Russia unleashed at least 48 Shahed drones, two missiles and four guided bombs on Kharkiv in the largest assault since the invasion, leaving at least six dead and over 40 wounded and damaging multiple neighborhoods.
• President Volodymyr Zelensky has called on the United States for tangible air defense commitments as Ukraine faces sustained Russian drone and missile raids.
• Ukraine’s military intelligence chief said next week’s prisoner swap will proceed as planned even though both sides accuse each other of stalling the process.
• Moscow’s assertion of a new offensive in Dnipropetrovsk was rejected by Kyiv’s general staff, which labeled the report as Russian disinformation and reported no fresh incursions.
• NATO allies, led by Poland, have scrambled fighter jets and bolstered air defenses along NATO airspace following intensified Russian air and drone operations near Ukraine’s western border.