Overview
- On Friday, repeated Russian drone strikes forced full or partial closure of three key bridges over the Dnipro in Kyiv, producing severe traffic gridlock and suspending some metro services.
- President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia launched more than 100 attack drones overnight, nearly 50 of them faster jet‑powered types that Kyiv says are designed to damage electricity pylons and metal bridge structures.
- A jet‑powered drone hit a Kyiv school while students sheltered and another strike damaged a central stanchion on the Pivdennyi (Southern) bridge, with preliminary inspections reporting no critical structural collapse.
- The overnight attacks killed at least one civilian and wounded others, and prompted reciprocal Ukrainian strikes on Russian oil facilities in Volgograd and Samara as Moscow said it downed hundreds of Ukrainian drones.
- Kyiv is urgently asking partners for advanced air‑defence interceptors and tightened export controls on drone components, and has received separate partial‑truce proposals from the United States, India, Turkey and Egypt that focus on energy sites and Black Sea shipping.