Overview
- Ukraine reported 293 drones, 18 ballistic missiles and seven cruise missiles fired at eight regions overnight, with widespread targets across the country.
- Air defenses said they downed 240 drones and seven missiles, yet impacts struck energy facilities in Kyiv, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhia and Odesa.
- A postal terminal outside Kharkiv was hit, killing four and injuring others, and a children’s medical facility in the city caught fire after a drone strike.
- Emergency power cuts were imposed around the capital, where several hundred thousand households lost electricity, as DTEK said a thermal power plant was damaged in its eighth attack since October.
- Western governments condemned Russia’s recent use of a nuclear-capable Oreshnik missile near the Polish border, and President Volodymyr Zelenskyy pressed allies to speed air-defense aid.