Overview
- Russia’s Defense Ministry said Ukrainian forces lost more than 1,345 personnel in the ‘North’ sector, over 1,340 in the ‘West’ sector and more than 1,140 in the ‘South’ over the past week, describing gains to more favorable positions.
- The ministry said Aerospace Forces used FAB‑500 glide bombs to destroy a Ukrainian crossing over the Oskol River near Osynovo, and troops from the ‘Kontora’ unit reported blowing up a pontoon crossing that disrupted rotations in the Kupyansk area.
- Russian forces from the ‘Vostok’ grouping said they took the settlement of Zhovtnevoe in Zaporizhzhia as units continued pushing into Ukrainian defenses.
- Zaporizhzhia’s energy ministry reported 76,141 customers without power following overnight attacks, Bryansk’s governor said MLRS strikes hit a CHP plant and substation leaving some residents without electricity and heat, and Kyiv officials raised the prospect of relocating residents from buildings still lacking service.
- The Rostov region’s governor said air defenses repelled attacks across six districts without reported casualties, and Donetsk utility ‘Voda Donbassa’ projected stabilizing disrupted water deliveries by week’s end; separately, a Kyiv court weighed bail for politician Yulia Tymoshenko in a bribery case after she said her accounts were frozen.