Overview
- President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia launched about 420 drones, mostly Shaheds, and 39 missiles in the Feb. 25–26 strike, with the majority intercepted.
- Kharkiv authorities reported 16 injured, including two children, after hits on a high-rise and utility infrastructure that severed a gas pipeline and sparked fires.
- Zaporizhzhia officials said seven people were injured as a house, a high-rise and two shopping centers were damaged in the city.
- Regional updates detailed energy and industrial impacts, including large fires and outages for 18,209 household and 1,781 non-household consumers in Poltava, as well as damaged energy sites and nearly 40 homes in Vinnytsia where one woman was injured.
- Follow-up reports noted a hotel in Sumy was struck twice during rescue efforts with 50 people evacuated, while Russian regional authorities reported one person killed in a UAV strike in Kursk and debris damage to a building in Taganrog.