The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense confirmed striking a crucial Russian space surveillance facility in Crimea, used for targeting civilians in Ukraine, but leading Western media outlets focused their reports on Russian civilian casualties based on Russian statements, which were incoherent.
The Institute for the Study of War reports that Russian authorities are encouraging tourism in occupied Crimea while simultaneously using the peninsula as a military staging area.
The attack on Kharkiv targeted a large printing enterprise, killing seven and injuring more than 20 people, after which President Zelenskyy urged the allies again to provide air defense systems to Ukraine.
Trypilska Thermal Power Plant served as the primary electricity supplier for the Kyiv, Cherkasy, and Zhytomyr oblasts, worsening the situation with the energy crisis in Ukraine.
Russian forces are likely trying to exploit Ukrainian air defense missile shortages in a renewed attempt to collapse Ukraine's energy grid, ISW reported.
Ukraine's multiple successful strikes on Russian military targets across Russian-occupied Crimea demonstrated Ukraine's growing ability to penetrate Russian defenses. The strikes aimed to degrade the Russian military’s ability to use Crimea as a base for further offensive operations in southern Ukraine