Overview
- Ukraine reported that Russian forces launched about 216 attack drones overnight, in what President Volodymyr Zelensky called Monday night's end to a short partial ceasefire.
- Energy operator Ukrenergo said strikes cut power in five regions, and local officials reported civilian deaths and injuries, including a 9‑month‑old girl critically hurt after a drone hit a home in Kryvyi Rih.
- Fighting stayed intense across the front, with Ukraine’s General Staff logging 170 clashes by late Tuesday and naming the Pokrovsk and Kostyantynivka axes as the hottest sectors.
- Zelensky confirmed late Tuesday that Ukrainian drones hit targets in Russia’s Orenburg region, which he described as sites of the Russian gas industry, casting the operation as a mirror response to renewed attacks.
- EU ministers discussed new funding streams for Kyiv, and EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said the U.S. PURL arms program continues to deliver, with an initial EU loan tranche due next month to buy drones.