Overview

• Authorities in Kyiv report nine injured, apartment fires and a blackout on the city’s left bank, while a 7-year-old boy died in the Zaporizhzhia region.
• Zelenskyy says Russia launched more than 450 drones and over 30 rockets overnight, triggering power cuts across multiple regions and spurring fresh appeals for air defenses and tougher sanctions.
• The IAEA says work has begun to restore external power to the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant after weeks on diesel generators, with observers noting nearby explosions.
• Ukraine continues deep strikes on Russian oil and gas infrastructure, including a Volgograd facility where a fire was confirmed, and officials in Kyiv say refinery outages are driving fuel shortfalls in Russia.
• In a separate development, Putin acknowledged a Russian air-defense fault in last December’s Azerbaijani airliner crash and pledged compensation to victims’ families.