Overview
- Following Thursday night's mass air assault, Ukraine's Air Force said it neutralized 26 missiles and 515 attack drones out of 579 airborne threats tracked nationwide.
- Officials reported at least five civilians killed in Kyiv, Sumy, Zhytomyr and Kharkiv regions, with Kharkiv suffering rapid jet‑propelled drone strikes and other hits that shattered homes and set cars ablaze.
- Grid operator Ukrenergo reported new outages in Sumy, Kharkiv, Chernihiv, Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhzhia and imposed daytime limits on industry along with morning rolling cuts for households.
- Ukraine's General Staff said drones ignited the Bashneft‑Novoyl refinery in Ufa about 1,400 kilometers from the border, describing the plant as a key supplier of oils and fuels used by Russia's military.
- In occupied Crimea, Russia opened a criminal case into an An‑26 crash near Kuybisheve with seven crew and 23 passengers, citing a likely technical failure as bloggers push unverified friendly‑fire claims.