Overview
- Ukraine’s General Staff said defenders stopped 73 Russian assaults on the Pokrovsk direction in the last 24 hours, and by 16:00 local time today 60 more clashes had taken place there.
- Across the front there were 196 combat engagements in the previous day, with Russia conducting 54 airstrikes, firing 41 missiles, dropping 126 guided bombs, deploying thousands of attack drones, and carrying out thousands of artillery strikes.
- ISW assesses that Moscow is expanding logistics and moving reinforcements toward Pokrovsk, which is likely to increase the pace of offensive operations soon.
- Ukraine’s energy ministry reports Russia is hitting power generation and transmission networks at the same time, prompting rolling blackouts nationwide with the toughest restrictions in Kharkiv, Sumy and Poltava regions.
- Regional officials reported civilian casualties, including one person killed and ten injured in Kharkiv over the past day and two people wounded by a strike in Kherson city today.