Overnight Russian drone attacks on Odesa dominated morning coverage, with multiple outlets reporting strikes on a maternity hospital and residential areas, civilian casualties including children, and a rising death toll that reached two by midday. Diplomatic developments continued from previous days, with President Zelensky responding to U.S. Senator Rubio's accusations about security guarantees being conditional on Ukrainian withdrawal from Donbas, maintaining his position that U.S. guarantees would only follow such withdrawal. Evening reports shifted to frontline military updates, with the General Staff reporting 222 clashes and Ukrainian forces eliminating nearly 130 occupiers on the Pokrovsk direction, while coverage continued on infrastructure disruptions in Kyiv and Zelensky's visit to Qatar.