Overview
- Russia’s Defense Ministry said its Vostok grouping seized Peshchane in Dnipropetrovsk region and claimed Ukrainian losses exceeded 1,480 personnel in a day.
- Moscow’s mayor reported 14 drones neutralized en route to the capital, Belgorod officials confirmed a strike on the Luch thermal power plant, and Russian-installed authorities in Kherson reported one civilian killed in Novaya Kakhovka and a woman wounded in Kakhovka.
- Energy firm DTEK said about 20 electrical substations were damaged in Ukraine’s Odesa region as Russian strikes hit energy and industrial sites, with outages reported across several areas.
- The FSB released videos of 10 detainees in five regions who said operators posing as officials coerced them via hacked government accounts and threats into arson and sabotage targeting police vehicles and energy and transport facilities.
- AFP, citing sources, reported the United States has asked Ukraine to withdraw forces from Donbass during negotiations, a demand Kyiv resists, while US and Ukrainian delegations held talks in Berlin that US envoy Stephen Witkoff described as showing significant progress.