Russia's drone strikes kill 22 in Ukraine amid fresh escalation

Russia conducted large-scale drone and missile attacks on Ukraine, destroying an apartment building in Pryluky and killing at least 22 people. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy condemned the strikes as "despicable" and accused Russia's military of deliberately targeting civilians as a "macabre gift" ahead of Putin's 74th birthday. Russia claimed it struck military targets including sites producing Flamingo cruise missiles and drones in Kyiv, as well as regions across Chernihiv, Kirovohrad, Dnipropetrovsk, Poltava, and Kharkiv. Zelenskyy said Ukraine's defense capability depends on weapons support from its allies.