Overview

• The Russian Defence Ministry said its forces seized Shandryholove and Zarichne northeast of Sloviansk and released video purporting to show control of Shandryholove.
• Reuters reported it could not independently verify the battlefield accounts and noted no Ukrainian confirmation regarding the two settlements.
• Ukrainian military spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Oleksii Bielskyi denied reports of a Russian push near the village of Zvirove southwest of Pokrovsk.
• Bielskyi said Ternove and Verbne in Dnipropetrovsk region remain under Ukrainian control and that small Russian teams sent to film staged “liberation” footage were eliminated.
• President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Ukraine’s counter-offensive near Dobropillia has retaken about 175 square kilometers, while analysts describe Russia’s daily village gains as slow and costly and the DeepState blog reported Ukraine ceded Poltavka east of Dobropillia.