Overview
- Ukraine’s General Staff reported 170 combat engagements in the past day, including 63 on the Pokrovsk axis, as ISW says Russian forces are pressing for encirclement while Ukrainian units counterattack to hold the flanks.
- Ukrenergo said consumers in Zaporizhia, Dnipropetrovsk and Odesa oblasts remain without power and hourly shutdowns of two to four stages are in effect as restoration crews work under safety restrictions.
- Security officials said they detained an alleged FSB agent in Kharkiv caught installing a tripwire with an F‑1 grenade in a city park and a suspected GRU agent accused of preparing to bomb a trunk gas pipeline serving parts of Kharkiv and Poltava regions.
- The General Staff said Ukrainian forces struck Russia’s Saratov oil refinery and hit fuel storage at the Feodosia marine terminal in occupied Crimea, with damage assessments ongoing, while Russia’s FSB claimed it foiled a MiG‑31 theft plot that Ukraine has not confirmed.
- Prosecutors reported a preliminary count of 1,553 cultural heritage sites damaged or destroyed, and military intelligence published details on 1,233 artworks looted from the Kherson Regional Art Museum.