Overview

• Ukrainian officials report that a pre-dawn drone attack on a five-storey Kharkiv apartment block killed five people, including a roughly 1.5-year-old child, and wounded at least 18 others.
• Rescuers from Ukraine’s State Emergency Service continue to search for survivors amid fires that engulfed multiple floors and shattered windows in surrounding buildings.
• Moscow launched drones and missiles at Kharkiv, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia and Odesa in a multi-city barrage that also damaged energy and fuel infrastructure.
• Reporting remains fluid as casualty figures vary between official statements and international outlets while emergency crews work to verify totals.
• Ukrainian authorities accuse Russia of deliberately targeting civilians just as President Zelenskyy holds crucial talks in Washington following the Putin-Trump summit.