Editors led with a Russian drone strike on a spent nuclear fuel storage facility near Chornobyl, reported overnight by Ukrinform, Glavcom, and Pravda. Zelensky condemned it as an escalation, and by afternoon the SBU opened a war crime investigation.
Simultaneously, Ukrainian forces struck oil depots in occupied Crimea, framed by UNIAN as part of an operation to force Russia to peace.
By evening, attention shifted to Zelensky's arrival in London for a security summit with European leaders, and revelations from FT that Abramovich had conveyed Zelensky's readiness to meet Putin. TSN presented this as a double humiliation for Putin, combining the St. Petersburg attack with Zelensky's diplomatic challenge.