Overview
- Ukraine’s Air Force reported tracking 52 missiles and 653 attack drones and said defenses destroyed or suppressed 623, with confirmed hits recorded at multiple sites.
- Officials reported civilian casualties across regions, including the death of a seven‑year‑old girl in Vinnytsia and two fatalities from a later bombing of the Sloviansk thermal power plant.
- Energy authorities said more than 670 settlements lost power in Vinnytsia, Zaporizhzhia and Dnipropetrovsk regions as emergency crews worked to restore services.
- Heavy ground combat persisted: the General Staff logged 172 engagements the previous day and 70 by mid‑afternoon today, with Pokrovsk the focal point; commanders denied claims of Ukrainian units being encircled.
- Poland scrambled national and allied fighters and raised air‑defense readiness, and Ukrainian forces reported successful strikes igniting fuel depots used by Russian troops in occupied Crimea.