Overview
- Ukrainian officials say more than 450 drones and 45 missiles struck energy facilities across several regions, damaging key grid assets.
- Substations that supply the Khmelnytskyi and Rivne nuclear plants were hit, prompting warnings about elevated nuclear-safety hazards.
- State generator Tsentrenergo reported fires and halted operations at its Kharkiv and Kyiv plants, saying its power output dropped to zero.
- Blackouts persisted in Kharkiv, Poltava and Sumy, with roughly 100,000 customers in Kharkiv lacking electricity, water and heating.
- Ukrainian strikes disrupted power and heat in Russia’s Belgorod and Voronezh, while Moscow’s defense ministry said it intercepted 44 drones.