Overview
- Ukraine’s Air Force reported a rolling assault on Friday with more than 400 long‑range drones in the past 24 hours plus about ten ballistic missiles in what officials called a new daytime tactic.
- Kharkiv faced repeated strikes from missiles and drones that set homes ablaze and injured residents, while hits on Bucha, Fastiv and Obukhiv in the Kyiv region killed one person and wounded eight, officials said.
- Regional authorities later reported three deaths in the Sumy region and one in the Zhytomyr region, raising Friday’s nationwide toll to at least six alongside dozens of injuries across several oblasts.
- Energy operator Ukrenergo ordered emergency power outages as strikes wrecked homes and services, with a veterinary clinic in the Kyiv region reporting animal deaths and Kherson documenting damage to apartments, water supply and a drone blast that injured bus passengers.
- Cross‑border fallout grew as Russia said it downed large numbers of Ukrainian drones over multiple regions and reported injuries in Belgorod and damage to a residential block in Ufa, while Poland scrambled fighter jets as Russian long‑range aviation launched strikes.