Ten people are dead and roughly one hundred more are injured after Russia struck a privately run military training site in the Bucha district, some twenty to thirty kilometres from central Kyiv. The site was hosting a live showcase of drone and aerial-defence technologies at the exact moment the missiles hit. Attorney General Ruslan Kravchenko immediately called the attack a war crime. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who had received a delegation from US arms manufacturer Raytheon in Kyiv the previous day, posted images of the wreckage and wrote that Patriot interceptors are now his single highest priority.

Russia's Defence Ministry offered its own account, claiming that its long-range precision weapons had targeted a demonstration of Ukrainian and foreign-made drones that were, it alleged, being used to plan strikes on Russian territory. The ministry also asserted that senior defence-industry officials and military personnel were present at the site. Beyond the Kyiv region, Russian strikes cut power across five separate Ukrainian regions, and at least five more people were reported killed in the eastern city of Slovyansk — where EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas condemned a hit on Latvia's Honorary Consulate. Ukraine struck back, targeting warehouses belonging to Wildberries — Russia's largest online retailer — this time in St.

Petersburg, the hometown of President Vladimir Putin. The exchange of blows unfolded on the same day that NATO jets operating over Romania intercepted and shot down a stray drone, with no casualties reported. And late on Friday, the White House confirmed that Trump and Zelenskyy would speak on Tuesday — the first scheduled conversation between the two leaders since Russia launched its full-scale invasion nearly four and a half years ago.