Overview
- Ukraine’s General Staff reported hundreds of combat engagements and thousands of drone and strike sorties over the past day, with Ukrinform saying 236–245 clashes were recorded and dozens of airstrikes and thousands of UAVs used.
- The Russian Defense Ministry announced the capture of several villages in Donetsk and Kharkiv and published large Ukrainian casualty figures, but independent verification of many territorial and loss claims is limited.
- Attacks across multiple Ukrainian regions have caused civilian deaths, injuries and damage to homes, transport and power lines, with regional authorities reporting strikes on Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia, Dnipropetrovsk and other oblasts.
- Ukrainian forces were credited with strikes inside Russia, including reported drone attacks on a Ryazan refinery and incidents near Rostov that Russian governors said caused fires and damage to buildings.
- U.S. envoys met leaders in Moscow and Kyiv and Russia said it would pause strikes on Kyiv for three days, a narrow operational halt that did not produce a wider ceasefire and fighting along the front continues.