Overview

• Ukraine’s General Staff logged 203 engagements in the past day, with the fiercest fighting on the Pokrovsk, Oleksandrivsk and Kostiantynivka axes.
• Russian forces launched an exceptionally large aerial campaign that included 4,804 kamikaze drones, 82 airstrikes and 147 glide bombs, damaging energy facilities and triggering outages, including targeted strikes on Odesa, as repairs continued.
• Energy Minister Svitlana Hryshchuk ordered stronger physical protection for generation sites, bigger equipment reserves and faster emergency repairs in coordination with international partners.
• President Volodymyr Zelensky reported a call with President Donald Trump and said the United States is considering ways to deepen cooperation, while talks with Canada focused on air defence and energy support.
• Local and security updates included heavy damage to a Kramatorsk school from drone strikes, a 10‑year sentence for an FSB informer who guided attacks, and Ukrainian marines destroying four Russian artillery systems shelling Kherson.