Overview
- Russia’s Defense Ministry said its forces hit energy sites used by Ukraine’s defense sector, long‑range UAV assembly and launch locations, and troop billets in 148 districts using aircraft, drones, missiles and artillery.
- Russian commands reported heavy Ukrainian losses across multiple sectors, including more than 500 in the Center grouping and over 200 in the West, with additional losses reported in the East, South and Dnepr zones, figures that could not be independently verified.
- Russian authorities and state media said units seized more than ten Ukrainian strongpoints near Lyman and reported strikes on UAV control points and an ammunition depot on the Krasnoarmeysk and Konstantinovka axes.
- Regional officials reported overnight drone activity inside Russia: air defenses engaged targets in four districts of the Rostov region, temporary alerts in Penza and Voronezh were later lifted, and Belgorod authorities said 60 drones attacked eight districts with one civilian killed.
- Ukrainian OSINT channels circulated claims of a UAV strike on the Syzran oil refinery, though Russian and Ukrainian officials had not confirmed any attack.