Overview
- Investigators also concluded that deportations and transfers of civilians from occupied Zaporizhzhia amount to war crimes, citing coerced evacuations and long bans on re‑entry to Russia.
- The report details more than 200 civilians killed, about 2,000 injured and thousands displaced by deliberate strikes on homes, aid distribution points and emergency responders.
- Overnight drone exchanges intensified, with Russia saying it intercepted 193 Ukrainian drones as Ukraine reported 100 Russian drones launched and 66 shot down.
- Zelensky requested two to three years of stable European financing tied to frozen Russian assets and said Kyiv is negotiating about 250 modern fighters, with Dassault indicating readiness to provide Rafale if asked.
- On the ground, heavy fighting persisted near Pokrovsk, Ukraine reported a strike on a children’s hospital in Kherson that wounded nine, and the SBU said it arrested a European ex‑instructor on suspicion of spying for Moscow.