Overview

• Ukraine’s Air Force said Russia deployed over 500 drones and 11 missiles in an eight-hour strike on Kyiv, damaging railway infrastructure and sparking fires across six districts
• Mayor Vitali Klitschko reported at least 23 injured and 14 hospitalized after falling debris from intercepted drones struck homes and a medical facility
• Russian airstrikes on Poltava killed two, injured nearly 50 and damaged a military draft office in what Kyiv calls an effort to disrupt mobilization
• Ukraine shot down hundreds of aerial threats and conducted retaliatory drone raids on Russia’s Lipetsk and Sergiyev Posad regions, causing civilian casualties and power outages
• The General Staff recorded 185 ground clashes in the past 24 hours, including 58 assaults in the Pokrovsk sector as frontline fighting remains fierce