Overview
- Ukraine’s Air Forces said they tracked 705 incoming threats during the night attack and neutralized 623, including hundreds of Shahed-type drones and several cruise missiles.
- Officials reported widespread damage to energy infrastructure, with more than 670 settlements without power in Vinnytsia, Zaporizhzhia and Dnipropetrovsk after strikes on generation and grid assets.
- A seven-year-old girl injured in Vinnytsia died in hospital, authorities recorded additional injuries in Kyiv region and at a struck gas station in Sumy, and the president cited dozens wounded and two dead across multiple regions.
- Ground fighting remained intense with 172 engagements in the past day, 55 on the Pokrovsk axis, as Ukraine’s commander denied Russian claims of encirclements in Pokrovsk and Kupyansk while noting enemy infantry present on northern outskirts.
- Security and regional responses escalated as the SBU detained alleged FSB operatives in Kyiv and Kharkiv, Lithuania closed key crossings with Belarus and pressed EU sanctions, hundreds of Lithuanian trucks were stranded, and Poland scrambled fighters to protect its airspace.