Overview

• Ukraine’s General Staff counted 200 clashes in the past day, with 67 assaults focused on the Pokrovsk axis and heightened activity near Lyman, Toretsk and Novopavlivka.
• IAEA observers recorded a drone being shot down and exploding roughly 800 meters from the South Ukraine nuclear plant after sighting 22 drones in the area.
• EU officials advanced the Varta eastern‑flank defense project with a priority “drone wall” to be designed with Ukraine for detection and interception.
• Ukraine’s security service named five Russian generals as suspects over March 2022 airstrikes on civilian targets in Sumy region that killed at least 15 people.
• Media citing a Ukrainian intelligence source reported maritime drones struck oil logistics at Novorossiysk and Tuapse and Russian channels noted blasts in Krasnodar Krai, reports not independently verified.