Overview
- Ukrainian military officials reported a large combined attack that they said included roughly 600 drones and 90 missiles targeting Kyiv and its surrounding region.
- Local Kyiv authorities reported civilian casualties and damage with four people killed and dozens wounded and video showed a huge fireball tied by reporters to a KH-101 cruise missile.
- The Russian Defense Ministry publicly said it used the Oreshnik hypersonic ballistic missile along with other long-range weapons and described the strikes as aimed at command, air base and defence-industry sites.
- Ukrainian air-defence spokespeople said their systems shot down or neutralized dozens and possibly hundreds of incoming threats, reporting the interception of 55 missiles and 549 hostile aerial targets.
- Tensions have widened regionally after U.S. forces carried out 'defensive strikes' in southern Iran and the IRGC reported shootdowns and warned of the right to reply, leaving the security environment highly volatile.