Overview
- The Russian defense ministry said its forces took Stepnohorsk in Zaporizhzhia, Dimitrov, Rodinskoye, Artemovka and Volnoye in the Donetsk region, and completed the capture of Gulyaypole, claiming up to 1,240 Ukrainian troops killed along with a tank and five U.S.-made M113s destroyed in the past day.
- Air-defense units reported shooting down a guided aerial bomb and 370 fixed-wing drones, with 25 Ukrainian UAVs downed over six Russian regions overnight, according to the ministry.
- Near Kupyansk, Russia’s ‘West’ grouping reported FPV operators destroyed a vehicle, an armored vehicle and a robotic platform, artillery struck Ukrainian drone control centers, and two attempted Ukrainian attacks were repelled; a media tally based on ministry data counted 13 settlements taken over the past week.
- In Sochi, a fire at an auto service and adjacent premises was fully extinguished after the preventive evacuation of 328 people from a nearby mall, with three injured and hospitalized, while a separate warehouse blaze at a shoe factory in Torzhok was also liquidated with no casualties reported.
- Severe weather in Sochi prompted storm warnings, with the airport reporting eight diversions and 12 delays and heavy snowfall in the Krasnaya Polyana area, and authorities keeping emergency services on heightened readiness; in the Kursk region, a drone-attack alert was issued and lifted within 44 minutes.