Overview
- Ukraine’s Air Force reported 705 airborne threats launched overnight, including 52 missiles and 653 drones, and said air defenses destroyed or suppressed 623 of them.
- Energy facilities were hit across several regions, leaving more than 670 settlements without electricity in Vinnytsia, Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhzhia as crews work to restore service.
- Officials confirmed multiple civilian casualties, including two deaths at the Slovyansk thermal power plant and the hospital death of a seven-year-old girl wounded in Vinnytsia.
- The General Staff recorded 172 clashes the previous day and 114 by late Thursday, with the Pokrovsk sector the most active; Ukrainian commanders rejected Russian claims of encirclements near Pokrovsk and Kupiansk.
- Ukrainian security services said drone strikes ignited two oil depots in occupied Crimea used to supply Russian forces, and separately announced the arrest in Kyiv of a British citizen accused of working for Russia’s FSB.