Russia Strikes Kill Civilians; US Walks Back Tomahawks

Russian forces launched large overnight waves of drones and missiles that killed civilians, including children, and damaged energy and gas infrastructure across multiple oblasts, triggering rolling blackouts and leaving the Donetsk region without power. Ukrainian authorities reported dozens of casualties and thousands of homes without power across Zaporizhzhia, Odesa, Kharkiv, Chernihiv and Donetsk, and said air defenses shot down the majority of incoming drones and missiles. Kyiv said it struck back, reporting hits on oil-loading facilities at Tuapse and a fuel pipeline in the Moscow region that supplies Russian forces; earlier reports also said a Ukrainian drone damaged two vessels at Tuapse. Ukraine’s national energy operator warned of continued rolling power cuts as repair crews work where security allows. Ukraine’s General Staff reported about 1,160 Russian personnel killed or wounded and losses of tanks and artillery systems, figures that could not be independently verified. Separately, President Trump said he would not push to sell US Tomahawk missiles to NATO for transfer to Ukraine, saying he does not want to escalate the war.