Roughly 600,000 households in Ukraine lost access to electricity following damage sustained by the national power grid. Officials in Kyiv and Kharkiv reported that a combined barrage of 39 ballistic missiles and more than 120 attack drones struck power and infrastructure facilities through the night, with the Ukrainian side attributing the assault to Russian forces.
Six people were killed after a drone struck a wholesale warehouse in Lutsk, according to available reports. Ten or more people sustained injuries in the incident.
Blasts struck Kyiv in quick succession, leaving visible plumes of smoke above parts of the city. Ukrainian police reported that ballistic activity originating from Russia had left a minimum of five people dead and 36 others with injuries across Kyiv, with the toll accumulating from Tuesday evening onward. A strike on a residential tower block in the city left three people dead and wounded 21 others, one of whom was a child. Two fatalities resulted when a structure used for non-residential purposes took a direct hit in a separate incident.
Two people sustained injuries after drone strikes hit Khmelnytskyi during the night, setting fire to residential and commercial properties throughout the western Ukrainian city. Debris from a drone that went down landed near a petrol station and set it alight.
Aerial bombardment by Russian forces left multiple structures across Zaporizhzhia damaged, among them the Prague Hotel, an office block, and a sports facility.
According to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Kyiv received no advance word from Washington before a Russian ballistic missile struck one of the capital's main power installations. He indicated that a repeat of the same type of incident had occurred on back-to-back days.
Accounts have surfaced indicating that officials in Washington put forward the prospect of halting both intelligence-sharing arrangements and arms transfers to Kyiv unless strikes on oil-processing facilities inside Russia were brought to a halt. Zelensky called on allies to send additional Patriot missiles, pointing to depleted interceptor stockpiles across the country's air defence network and stating that Kyiv had not yet built up adequate readiness for the winter period ahead.
United States President Donald Trump told reporters that intelligence sharing with Ukraine remains ongoing, while laying out his view that a resolution to the conflict requires buy-in from both Zelensky and Putin.
SpaceX curtailed certain Starlink services operating inside the country without giving Ukraine any advance notification of the change. A presidential adviser indicated that the operations in question were thrown off course as a result.
A defence-linked tranche of 3.2 billion dollars reached Kyiv after the European Commission released the funds through its Ukraine Support Loan facility. Drones, air defence systems, missiles, radars, and ammunition are among the equipment categories the money is earmarked to cover.
At a meeting of alliance members, the NATO secretary-general put forward a call for greater contributions toward strengthening Ukraine's protection against aerial threats.
An attack on the Saratov data centre — a facility that had been slated to become the largest of its kind on the continent — was acknowledged by Russian authorities. Authorities in the Russian capital put forward a count of 493 drones directed toward the city, a development that prompted airports there to place restrictions on departing and arriving flights.
No public statement from Moscow has addressed whether the energy ceasefire proposal put forward by Trump would meet with its acceptance. Moscow acknowledged the steps taken by Washington toward ending the conflict while placing responsibility for added obstacles on European governments.
