- Russia launched a wave of missile and drone strikes across Ukraine on Wednesday, killing at least 25 people, including five children, and injuring 100 others.
- The heaviest casualties occurred in Pryluky, in the Chernihiv region, after a Russian missile destroyed a five-storey residential building.
- Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky condemned the attack as one of Russia's most "vile strikes", noting it coincided with Vladimir Putin 's birthday.
- France conducted a test launch of a submarine-launched nuclear-capable ballistic missile off the coast of Brittany, which president Emmanuel Macron described as a clear message.
- The Kremlin criticised the French missile test, claiming France's strategy of confronting Russia in defence matters is a "dead end path".
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