Overview
- Ukraine’s General Staff logged 148 combat engagements in the past day, including 45 Russian attacks on the Pokrovsk axis where earlier reports confirmed enemy troops inside parts of the city.
- A Ukrainian airborne corps officer said Russian forces are using infiltration and a scorched‑earth approach in the Pokrovsk area to destroy infrastructure and threaten key logistics routes.
- Overnight drones struck industrial targets inside Russia, including a refinery in Ulyanovsk region and the Stavrolen petrochemical plant in Stavropol, with temporary flight restrictions reported at multiple airports.
- Occupied Crimea reported fires at oil depots in Gvardijske and Simferopol after drone attacks, with regional authorities citing no casualties as emergency crews responded.
- Ukrenergo reported consumers without power in Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhia and Odesa regions and enforced hourly outage schedules, as allied backing advanced with Dutch energy support and drone cooperation talks, new PURL commitments of about $2 billion, and a U.S. intelligence assessment that Putin shows no willingness to compromise.