Overview
- Kyiv officials reported at least 22 people injured, including two children, and widespread heating and electricity outages after drones and missiles struck multiple districts.
- President Volodymyr Zelensky said nearly 500 drones and 40 missiles targeted Ukraine, focusing on the capital’s energy and civilian infrastructure.
- Russia’s defense ministry said it used long-range precision weapons, including Kinzhal missiles and drones, to hit energy facilities used by Ukrainian forces and defense-industry sites, claiming all assigned targets were struck.
- On the Kupyansk axis, Russia’s Western grouping said it repelled multiple Ukrainian counterattacks over two days and released footage of FPV drone strikes on vehicles, while later reporting three additional assaults thwarted near the city.
- Russian military briefings claimed heavy Ukrainian losses across several sectors — over 440 in the Center grouping’s area, more than 220 in Vostok, up to 180 in North, and up to 55 in Dnepr — as regional authorities also reported Ukrainian drone attacks in Russia’s Belgorod region and additional blasts in Myrhorod and Kyiv.