Overview

• Russia’s Defense Ministry reports up to 535 Ukrainian personnel lost in the “Center” sector and additional losses across the “East,” “North,” and “Dnepr” groupings over the past day.
• Ukrainian TV channels report explosions in Sumy and Kharkiv during overnight alerts, with sirens also sounding in parts of Dnipropetrovsk region.
• Russian accounts highlight localized actions, including a sergeant thwarting a sabotage group and the reported destruction of a strike team near Kondratovka in the Sumy direction.
• Poland’s national security chief opposes extraditing a Nord Stream suspect to Germany and says the country is effectively at war with Russia due to hybrid threats.
• Cross-border and regional updates include three deaths and 12 injuries in Russia’s Kursk region after weekend attacks and Moscow’s envoy in Israel welcoming a hostage-release phase that freed a Donbass native.