Overview

• Ukraine reported 223 combat engagements over the previous day and 63 more by mid‑afternoon, with 25 Russian assaults concentrated on the Pokrovsk direction.
• Russia launched roughly 86–90 strike drones overnight; defenses shot down 71, but infrastructure was damaged in several regions, including payment and validation systems on Kyiv’s transit, and two people were injured in Pavlohrad.
• Assessments remain divided on whether Russian drones entered Polish airspace intentionally, while Romania documented more than 20 incidents of drone debris falling on its territory after Ukrainian intercepts.
• The European Commission is advancing a “reparations credit” using cash flows tied to frozen Russian assets and is moving to build a “drone wall” that will include Ukraine and leverage Ukrainian detection and interception know‑how.
• President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukraine proposed major drone and weapons agreements to the United States as security officials urged more air defenses through mechanisms such as PURL to counter escalating Russian strikes.