Overview
- Russia launched 24 missiles and 219 drones overnight, with strikes hitting Kyiv, Kharkiv, Dnipro and Odesa, authorities said.
- Kyiv reported nearly 2,600 additional residential buildings without heat and more than 100,000 households without power after energy facilities were targeted.
- An overnight drone strike in Bogodukhiv destroyed a home, killing a father and three young children and injuring the pregnant mother, prompting a preliminary war‑crime probe by Kharkiv prosecutors.
- In Russia’s Volgograd region, debris from a repelled missile attack ignited a fire at a Defense Ministry site near Kotluban, triggering a village evacuation; a drone strike also damaged a military academy in Tambov, officials said.
- Ukraine is relocating transformer stations underground to harden its grid, as President Volodymyr Zelensky tied any elections to a ceasefire and security guarantees and said Kyiv accepted a proposed U.S.-hosted round of talks that Russia has yet to confirm.