Overview
- Ukraine’s Air Force, which reported Thursday that Russia launched 102 attack drones overnight, said air defenses downed 92 and confirmed eight strikes at six sites.
- The General Staff said there were 157 combat engagements over the past day, with the Pokrovsk and Hulyaypil sectors seeing the most assaults that Ukrainian forces reported stopping.
- Russian strikes during the declared truce killed civilians in several cities, including six dead and 13 wounded in Kramatorsk, 12 dead and 37 wounded in Zaporizhzhia, and four dead in Dnipro.
- State grid operator Ukrenergo reported new power outages in Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia and Kharkiv regions after attacks and began emergency repairs where crews could work safely.
- The UN urged both sides to honor their ceasefire pledges and said two aid convoys reached hard hit areas, while Russia’s Foreign Ministry warned embassies to evacuate Kyiv before May 9 because of threatened strikes.