Overview
- Targets included energy facilities across Kyiv, Kharkiv, Sumy, Dnipropetrovsk, Odesa and Vinnytsia, with at least nine people injured and 1,170 apartment blocks in Kyiv left without heat as temperatures plunged.
- Ukrainian officials reported roughly 450 attack drones and more than 70 missiles in the overnight assault, including a record 32 ballistic missiles, which energy firm DTEK called the heaviest blow to the power network this year.
- Ukraine said air defenses intercepted most of the barrage, yet at least 27 missiles and 31 drones struck 27 locations, igniting fires in high‑rise buildings and damaging a kindergarten in the capital.
- The military cited acute shortages of interceptor missiles on some launchers and appealed for urgent deliveries, noting instances where NASAMS units had only two missiles loaded instead of six.
- Zelenskyy said the strike will prompt adjustments to Ukraine’s negotiating team before talks in Abu Dhabi, as NATO Secretary‑General Mark Rutte visited Kyiv to reaffirm long‑term support.