Overview

• Russia launched multi‑wave strikes with drones, hypersonic and cruise missiles across Ukraine, leaving at least ten dead in Kyiv, including a child, and dozens injured, according to officials.
• Residential areas across the capital were hit and an EU mission building sustained heavy blast damage, EU leaders and the ambassador reported.
• Ukraine said it struck the Afipski refinery in Krasnodar and the Kuibyshev refinery in Samara, with regional authorities confirming a fire at Afipski.
• Zelenskyy called for hard new measures against Moscow and urged public responses from China and Hungary, while sending Andriy Yermak and Rustem Umerov to the United States for security‑guarantee talks.
• Germany’s cabinet advanced a defense package including a new Wehrdienst draft, expanded military intelligence and cyber authorities, broader Feldjäger powers, and a National Security Council, pending Bundestag approval.