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Ukraine Downs Most of Massive Russian Air Barrage as Energy Grid and Rail Suffer Hits

The year's eighth mass strike on the power system triggered nationwide rolling outages across multiple regions.

Overview

  • Ukraine’s Air Forces reported 704 airborne threats detected overnight, including 653 attack drones and 51 missiles, and said defenses neutralized 615 targets with hits recorded at 29 locations.
  • Rail infrastructure around Fastiv in Kyiv region sustained fires and damage to the station and depot, prompting commuter cancellations, a KyivMotovylivka shuttle, and other temporary route changes.
  • Grid operator Ukrenergo expanded rolling power cuts to 2.5–3 outage queues nationwide as crews repair generation and transmission assets struck in Kyiv, Chernihiv, Lviv, Odesa, Zaporizhzhia, Dnipropetrovsk, Mykolaiv and Kharkiv regions.
  • Officials reported civilian impacts including three people injured in Kyiv region and multiple fires and structural damage, with emergency services conducting rescue and restoration work.
  • The General Staff logged 184 frontline engagements over the previous day and reported Russian personnel losses as claimed by Ukraine, while Russian authorities and independent channels reported drone-caused fires at the Ryazan oil refinery with no casualties.