Overview

• Ukraine and independent mapping project DeepState confirm Russian troops entered the Dnipropetrovsk region, taking Zaporizke and Novohryhorivka as fighting continues nearby.
• An overnight large-scale drone attack hit multiple Ukrainian cities, with Kyiv reporting three dead, including a 14-year-old, and residential blocks damaged in several districts.
• Ukrainian officials will meet U.S. counterparts in New York on Friday to discuss postwar security arrangements, with Andriy Yermak and Rustem Umerov leading the delegation.
• According to European and Ukrainian officials cited by the Financial Times, Washington is prepared to provide intelligence, ISR, command-and-control and air-defense enablers for a Europe-led security plan, excluding U.S. ground troops; Yermak publicly affirmed the outlines.
• The Kremlin reiterates opposition to any deployment of European or NATO-country troops on Ukrainian soil, as reports detail Russia’s conversion of occupied civilian infrastructure into bases and long-range drone launch sites.