Overview
- A concentrated barrage of ballistic and cruise missiles plus swarms of attack drones struck Kyiv and other regions overnight, causing at least nine deaths, dozens of injuries, multiple fires and damage to homes, a school and the Lithuanian embassy.
- Ukrainian leaders reported long‑range strikes into Russian regions that hit logistics hubs and refineries in Volgograd, Kazan and Sarapul as both sides reported large drone activity and interceptions.
- The ground war remains intense with Ukrainian General Staff reports of hundreds of combat engagements across multiple directions, most heavily on the Pokrovsk, Kostyantynivka and Slovyansk axes.
- Strikes degraded energy networks and left power outages in Donetsk, Sumy, Kharkiv and Mykolaiv oblasts while prosecutors said they arrested an alleged Russian agent in Zhytomyr accused of collecting intelligence on power plants.
- Ukrainian officials warned that a shortage of interceptor missiles for Patriot and similar systems reduced their ability to stop ballistic strikes and prompted diplomatic pressure and summonses of Russian envoys from neighbouring states.