Overview
- Ukrainian officials said strikes focused on energy sites across Kyiv, Kharkiv, Dnipro, Sumy, Odesa and Vinnytsia, injuring at least nine people and leaving 1,170 apartment buildings in Kyiv without heat as temperatures plunged.
- Ukraine reported downing 450 of 521 aerial targets, yet 27 missiles and 31 drones still hit 27 locations, damaging residential buildings, a kindergarten and parts of a national museum in the capital.
- Air force spokesperson Yurii Ihnat said interceptor stocks are strained and some launchers have been only partly loaded, prompting urgent calls for more Patriot, NASAMS and other air‑defence munitions.
- Kyiv framed the overnight attack as breaking a short, disputed pause linked to Trump’s appeal and said the Ukrainian negotiating team’s approach to the Abu Dhabi talks will be adjusted in response.
- Energy firm DTEK reported damage to thermal power plants during what it called the year’s most powerful strike, while Russia’s Defense Ministry said it targeted military‑industrial and energy facilities.