Overview
- Russia’s Defense Ministry said its Center grouping repelled 13 attacks aiming to relieve encircled Ukrainian units near Krasnoarmeysk and stopped three breakout attempts by the 425th assault regiment.
- Russian forces reported taking prisoners from Ukraine’s 68th Jaeger Brigade inside the Krasnoarmeysk pocket, with detainees describing days without food or water under constant fire.
- The commander of a West grouping assault unit said troops cleared 25 buildings in Kupyansk over the past day, adding that Ukrainian forces continue efforts to break the siege.
- Regional officials said Ukrainian drones struck a Volgograd oil refinery and Kostromskaya GRES overnight; the Defense Ministry reported 75 UAVs downed and authorities confirmed one civilian death in Volgograd.
- The Defense Ministry reported additional strikes by South and Dnepr groupings, claiming up to 95 Ukrainian troops and two tanks destroyed in Donetsk and up to 45 personnel and several systems neutralized in Zaporizhzhia and Kherson.