Overview
- Kremlin-installed officials in occupied Zaporizhzhia say damage to power facilities left about 213,000 subscribers across 386 settlements without electricity.
- Ukraine’s Energy Ministry describes supply in the capital and surrounding region as critical, with strict distribution limits and restoration slowed by fighting and harsh weather.
- The Ukrainian Air Force reports Russia launched 201 drones overnight and says air defenses downed 167 of them.
- Ukrainian officials report at least two people killed in the latest attacks, with injuries in Dnipropetrovsk and a quickly extinguished fire at an energy site in Odesa.
- President Volodymyr Zelensky convened an energy coordination session, ordered checks of unheated buildings in Kyiv, directed the Defense Ministry to bolster airspace protection, and called for more electricity imports.