Overview
- Ukraine’s energy minister said every power plant has been hit during the war, citing 612 targeted attacks on the sector last year and thousands of megawatts of generation knocked offline, with the worst shortages in Kyiv and several eastern and southern regions.
- President Volodymyr Zelensky announced a state of emergency and ordered increased electricity imports as authorities pursue donor support, including a £20 million UK package and a planned international “energy Ramstein.”
- Russia’s Defense Ministry reported the capture of Zhovtneve in Zaporizhzhia and other localized advances, and troops described seizing Western-supplied small arms and anti-tank missiles they say were later used against Ukrainian positions.
- Russian units detailed building an improvised crossing over the Gai-chur river—using boards, brush and a hard freeze—to move assault groups and take Zhovtneve after several days of preparation.
- At a meeting on autonomous and unmanned systems, President Vladimir Putin directed the government to draft deployment plans, involve wounded veterans in development and operations, and strengthen cybersecurity to prevent unauthorized access to drone control and data.