Overview
- Kharkiv governor Oleg Synegubov said a 17-year-old wounded in Berestyn died in hospital, with at least nine others injured.
- Dnipropetrovsk governor Vladyslav Gaivanenko reported fires in Dnipro after a UAV attack, with no casualty details released.
- Ukraine's emergency service said earlier Russian strikes killed five people and destroyed a kindergarten, including three deaths in Balakliya.
- Moscow-installed official Denis Pushilin claimed Ukrainian drones damaged the Zuivska and Starobesheve thermal plants and related facilities, leaving about 500,000 without power.
- Reuters said it could not verify the Donetsk outage claims, as Kyiv increases long-range attacks and follows a Macron–Zelensky accord for up to 100 fighter jets and other hardware.