Overview
- Russia’s Ministry of Defense said its Vostok grouping seized Zhovtneve in the Zaporizhzhia region and occupied a Ukrainian defensive area of more than six square kilometers, describing the move as expanding a bridgehead on the west bank of the Haichur River.
- The ministry’s weekly summaries claimed Ukrainian losses of over 1,340 personnel in the West sector and more than 1,140 in the South, along with tanks, armored vehicles and artillery, figures that have not been independently corroborated.
- Regional authorities in Zaporizhzhia reported 76,141 consumers without electricity after attacks, with restoration slowed by heavy drone activity and outages affecting multiple towns and cities.
- Russian officials said an aerial attack was repelled across six districts of the Rostov region with no reported casualties, and Bryansk’s governor reported MLRS strikes on energy facilities that left some residents without power and heat.
- Kyiv city council member Marina Poroshenko warned that residents of buildings still without heat and electricity may need to be resettled, as former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko said her bank accounts were frozen before a court ruling in a corruption case where prosecutors are seeking a 50 million hryvnia bail.