Overview
- Ukraine's General Staff reports daily combat in the hundreds, with the Pokrovsk direction repeatedly the most active and Ukrainian forces repelling dozens of Russian attacks there.
- Russian forces have used large waves of strike drones and guided bombs, and Ukraine's air defenses say they intercepted large numbers of kamikaze drones during recent nighttime attacks.
- U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner visited Moscow and Kyiv with updated versions of earlier American proposals, but core territorial questions, notably over Donbas, remain unresolved.
- Ukrainian security services announced a counterintelligence arrest in Mykolaiv of a mobilized soldier accused of working with the FSB, and military intelligence warned Russia may have resources to sustain the war through 2027–28.
- Reports of drone strikes inside Russia's regions, including Perm and Rostov, emerged as developing accounts that are not yet fully confirmed by Ukrainian military sources, and Kyiv is pressing partners for more air defense, energy and financial aid for the coming winter.