Overview
- Ukraine’s General Staff reported 144 combat engagements over the last 24 hours, with the heaviest fighting on the Pokrovsk and Huliaipole axes.
- Military updates cited one missile strike, 74 airstrikes, 255 guided bombs and 8,445 kamikaze drones used by Russia during the period, alongside thousands of artillery attacks.
- Commander Oleksandr Syrskyi said interceptor UAVs destroyed over 70% of Shahed‑type drones around Kyiv in February, with roughly 6,300 sorties and more than 1,500 Russian UAVs downed by these systems.
- President Volodymyr Zelensky offered to deploy Ukraine’s top drone‑interception operators to Gulf partners if a ceasefire holds in Ukraine, stressing any help would not reduce Ukraine’s own air‑defence capacity.
- Ukrainian officials and Western reporting warned that a prolonged Middle East campaign could squeeze supplies of Patriot and other air‑defence munitions for Kyiv, as Germany summoned Iran’s ambassador over regional attacks.