Overview
- The Defense Ministry said air, missile, drone and artillery units struck airfields, ports, energy infrastructure and troop sites in 142 locations across Ukraine.
- Moscow reported its Southern grouping took the Donetsk settlement of Svato-Pokrovskoe and said forces near Grishino repelled an 82nd Brigade push, while the Sever grouping claimed up to 265 Ukrainian casualties in the Sumy–Kharkiv sector.
- Control of Kupyansk remains disputed, with pro‑Russian channels describing a Russian pullback and ISW assessing that Ukrainian forces hold most of the city, contradicting earlier briefings to President Vladimir Putin.
- Regional officials reported explosions from an aerial attack in Novoshakhtinsk in Russia’s Rostov region with no casualties, and Rosatom’s chief said shelling near Energodar is aimed at intimidating Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant staff.
- Russian courts issued in‑absentia convictions of Ukrainian officials, including 13 years for Sumy military police head Vladimir Tokarev and 28 and 26 years for Eduard Moskalev and Alexey Dmitrashkovsky, as testimony in the Kursk fortifications case described shoddy, noncompliant works.