Overview
- Rescue crews in Kyiv, which worked through Thursday night, reported 24 people killed including three children after a Kh-101 cruise missile collapsed part of a nine-storey apartment block and left dozens injured, and the city set Friday as a day of mourning.
- President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia launched 1,567 attack drones since Wednesday plus more than 50 missiles in what officials called the war’s largest two-day air assault following a three-day ceasefire, and he reported intercept rates of about 94% for drones and 73% for missiles.
- Authorities said about 180 sites were damaged across Ukraine, with strikes injuring civilians in Kharkiv and Odesa and disrupting electricity supplies in 11 regions.
- Ukraine’s foreign minister said Russian first-person-view drones struck a clearly marked UN humanitarian vehicle in Kherson during an aid mission and he urged a formal UN condemnation, with no injuries reported.
- The UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission reports 566 civilians killed and 2,731 injured in the first quarter, with missiles and drones the main cause, a pattern echoed by this week’s long-range strikes far from the front lines.