Overview
- Ukraine says Russia launched 458 drones and 45 missiles overnight, with air defenses shooting down 409 drones and nine missiles.
- At least four civilians were reported killed in Dnipro and Kharkiv as strikes damaged power and gas infrastructure and disrupted water and heating in multiple regions, including Kyiv, Odesa and Kremenchuk.
- Ukrenergo said rolling outages of eight to sixteen hours per day will persist during repairs, and state generator Centerenergo reported thermal capacity reduced to zero after the attacks.
- Kyiv accused Moscow of deliberately targeting substations that feed the Khmelnytskyi and Rivne nuclear plants and called for an urgent IAEA governors’ meeting.
- Intense fighting continued around the logistics hub of Pokrovsk in Donetsk, and the U.S. granted Hungary an exemption from sanctions on Russian oil and gas.