Overview
- Search-and-rescue in Ternopil ended after four days with 34 confirmed dead, including six children, and six people still missing as investigators gather evidence on the munitions used.
- Ukrainian air defenses reported downing 89 of 104 drones in one overnight wave and 69 of 98 the following night, yet multiple strikes still hit residential and infrastructure sites across regions.
- Local authorities reported new civilian casualties and damage: at least two killed and five injured in the Nikopol district, and 15–16 injured in Dnipro, with homes and utilities affected.
- Ukrainian forces said they are maintaining positions in central Pokrovsk, having cleared the railway station, pedagogical college and Sobornyi Square, and are conducting search-and-destroy operations against infiltrating Russian units.
- Ukraine’s Special Operations Forces reported nighttime drone strikes that destroyed a key elevated position and hit Russian assembly, ammunition and logistics sites near Pokrovsk; a separate claim of a Mi-8 downed inside Russia has not been independently verified.