Overview
- Ukrainian authorities reported large-scale drone and missile strikes targeting energy infrastructure, causing emergency power outages in Kyiv and several regions and leaving at least two people dead with additional injuries.
- Regional updates cited damage to residential and civilian sites in Kyiv and Zhytomyr areas, hits on energy, port, transport and industrial facilities in Odesa region including a civilian cargo vessel, and attacks on critical energy assets in Rivne and Lviv regions.
- Ukraine’s air-raid map showed alerts across much of the country as local media reported explosions in cities including Kharkiv and Rivne, while Poland launched fighter jets as a precaution and reported no airspace violation.
- Russia’s Defense Ministry said units of its “North” grouping took control of Vilcha in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region, a battlefield claim carried by state media.
- Inside Russia, authorities said Ukrainian drones damaged two piers and two ships in Krasnodar Krai without casualties, the Investigative Committee announced the arrest of a Moscow teenager over a railway relay arson it linked to Ukrainian handlers, and Russia’s foreign intelligence service alleged Ukrainian elites were moving families and assets abroad.