Overview
- Ukraine’s General Staff logged 216 combat engagements in the past day, with 75 assaults repelled on the Pokrovsk axis and heightened pressure reported on the Lyman and Hulyaypole fronts.
- Russia conducted 66 air strikes and dropped 164 guided bombs, carried out 4,122 shelling attacks, and employed 4,082 kamikaze drones, hitting energy facilities in Kharkiv, Sumy, Chernihiv, Odesa and Donetsk oblasts.
- A Russian rocket strike on Balakliia killed three people and wounded 15, including three children, as fires and damage were reported across nearby residential buildings and public infrastructure.
- Zelensky and Macron signed a defense declaration enabling Ukraine to acquire up to 100 Rafale F4 fighters by 2035 and eight SAMP/T systems, with immediate deliveries, drone-interceptor projects and co-production plans outlined by Paris and Kyiv.
- Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk called an explosion on the Warsaw–Lublin railway an unprecedented act of sabotage and opened an investigation, as service continued on an adjacent track with minor delays reported by Ukrzaliznytsia.