Overview
- Officials reported fresh damage to Ukraine’s power system that left more than 600,000 consumers in Dnipropetrovsk offline and caused outages across 12 oblasts, with crews repeatedly pulled back by air alerts during repairs.
- A Russian aviation strike on an underground school in Komyshuvakha has produced a large civilian toll, with rescue teams recovering 55 dead and identifying 29 people so far while searches continue under threat from drone strikes.
- Ukraine’s General Staff recorded very high combat activity, reporting roughly 140–199 daily engagements in recent updates and identifying the Pokrovsk and Kostyantynivka directions as the most heavily attacked sectors.
- Ukrainian forces said they struck four Russian or occupation-area drone command-and-control nodes and Russian officials reported a drone strike and fire at the Kirishi refinery area, showing Kyiv is degrading some enemy drone networks and striking targets inside Russia.
- Energy authorities said the temporarily Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant lost external power and switched to diesel generators, hospitals and critical services are running on backup power, and the strikes raise acute humanitarian and winter risks to civilians and repair crews.