A Ukrainian soldier launches a reconnaissance drone. Photo Oleg Petrasiuk / Ukrainian Armed Forces.
- The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, signed a decree allowing citizens over 60 years old to sign a contract for military service.
- The European Union intends to impose a ban on Russian cryptocurrency platforms and curb financial transactions associated with Russia.
- A massive drone attack occurred in the Volgograd region of Russia, resulting in damage to residential apartments in Volzhsky and a fire at a factory.
- As a result of a Russian drone strike on Bohodukhiv in the Kharkiv region, a man and three children were killed.
- An airstrike on Sloviansk claimed the lives of two people, including an 11-year-old girl, and injured seven others.
- The city of Volnyansk in the Zaporizhzhia region was attacked by drones, resulting in injuries to two women, a man, and a boy.
- A new strike was delivered against energy infrastructure in the Odesa region, causing power outages in three settlements.
- Pope Leo XIV sent three trucks with 80 generators, medications, and food to Ukraine.
- In Zaporizhzhia, as a result of a Russian attack, apartment buildings and a kindergarten were damaged, while 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 from injuries at the scene.
- In the Kursk region of Russia, around 28,000 people were left without electricity and heating due to a strike on an energy facility.
- In the Sumy region of Russia, two children, aged 8 and 12, were injured when a Russian drone fell on a private house.
- The International Olympic Committee did not allow Ukrainian skeleton athlete Vladislav Geraskevich to use a helmet featuring images of deceased athletes, citing the Olympic Charter that prohibits political demonstrations at the Games.
- The U.S. Ambassador to NATO, Matthew Whitaker, stated the need for new commitments from European countries to purchase American weapons for Ukraine.
- Greece and Malta refused to support the European Commission's proposal to replace the price cap on Russian oil with a ban on maritime transport services.
- The European Union is developing an "unprecedented plan" that would allow Ukraine to obtain partial EU membership as early as 2027, according to Politico citing anonymous sources.
- The Federal Security Service of Russia reported the arrest of a third suspected accomplice in the assassination attempt on General Vladimir Alekseev, identified as Pavel Vasin, born in 1981, the son of one of the previously detained suspects.
- French President Emmanuel Macron again called for the resumption of dialogue with the Kremlin, noting that interaction with Vladimir Putin should be "well organized" and take place in a narrow circle.
