A Ukrainian soldier launches a reconnaissance drone. Photo by Oleg Petrasiuk / Ukrainian Armed Forces.
- The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, signed a decree allowing citizens over 60 years old to serve under contract.
- The European Union intends to ban cryptocurrency platforms from Russia and restrict related transactions.
- A large-scale drone attack was registered in the Volgograd region of Russia, resulting in damage to apartments and a fire at a factory.
- As a result of a Russian drone strike on the city of Bohodukhiv in the Kharkiv region, a man and three children were killed.
- Sloviansk was subjected to an airstrike, resulting in the deaths of two people, including an 11-year-old girl, and seven others were injured.
- Russian troops attacked the city of Volnyansk in the Zaporizhzhia region, injuring two women, a man, and a boy.
- A new strike on energy infrastructure in the Odesa region led to partial power outages in three communities.
- Pope Leo XIV sent three trucks with 80 generators, medications, and food to Ukraine.
- In Zaporizhzhia, apartments and a kindergarten building were damaged as a result of a Russian attack. In the occupied part of the region, a priest was killed due to a Ukrainian strike on a funeral procession.
- In the Belgorod region of Russia, a Ukrainian drone attacked a Gazelle vehicle, resulting in the driver dying on the spot.
- A strike on an energy facility in the Kursk region left about 28,000 people without electricity and heating.
- A Russian drone hit a private house in the Sumy region, injuring two children, aged 8 and 12.
- The International Olympic Committee banned Ukrainian skeleton athlete Vladislav Geraskevich from wearing a helmet with images of deceased athletes, citing the Olympic Charter.
- The U.S. Ambassador to NATO, Matthew Whitaker, expressed expectations for new commitments from European countries to purchase American weapons for Ukraine.
- Greece and Malta opposed the European Commission's proposal to replace the price cap on Russian oil with a ban on maritime transportation.
- The European Union is developing a plan that could grant Ukraine partial membership as early as 2027, according to sources from Politico.
- The FSB of Russia reported the detention of a third suspect in the assassination attempt on Lieutenant General Vladimir Alekseev.
- French President Emmanuel Macron reiterated the need to resume direct dialogue with the Kremlin, noting that interaction with Putin should be organized in a narrow circle.
