Overview
- Following one of the war’s largest infrastructure barrages, which used more than 450 drones and 45 missiles and killed at least four people, Ukrenergo imposed emergency cuts and Centerenergo said its generation was reduced to zero as crews work to stabilize the grid.
- Moscow said it seized the villages of Nove and Slodkie in Zaporizhzhia and Gnativka in Donetsk, while Ukrainian commanders report large Russian force concentrations around Pokrovsk and describe the frontline situation as highly tense.
- Ukrainian strikes have hit targets inside Russia, leaving tens of thousands without power in border regions, and Saratov’s governor reported overnight drone damage to civilian infrastructure.
- Romania’s defense ministry reported finding possible drone fragments near the Danube port of Izmail and issued a local alert after Russian attacks across the river in Ukraine.
- Russia’s FSB alleged a Ukrainian‑British plot to divert a MiG‑31 to NATO’s Constanta base, claims dismissed as propaganda by Kyiv and Romania, as President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukraine aims to order 27 Patriot air‑defense systems and borrow units from European neighbors pending delivery.