Overview
- Russia’s Defense Ministry said its Vostok grouping completed the capture of Uspenovka in Zaporizhzhia, asserting control over more than seven square kilometers after clearing over 1,100 structures and destroying dozens of Ukrainian vehicles.
- Moscow reported ongoing efforts to reduce encircled Ukrainian formations around Kupyansk and in the Pokrovsk–Dymytrov area, citing daily building-by-building “clearance” and repelled breakout attempts, including the destruction of a T‑72 by an FPV drone.
- The ministry tallied more than 1,540 Ukrainian personnel losses over the past week in the sector covered by Russia’s West grouping, with separate figures of at least 345 personnel and 94 pieces of equipment lost near Kupyansk.
- Russian security and military sources said strikes hit Ukrainian drone launch sites and a site housing foreign fighters in the Kharkiv region’s Chuhuiv area, and reported a strike on a border post and a collection point for unmanned boats in Ukraine’s Odesa region.
- Reuters and Ukraine’s General Staff confirmed that Ukrainian drones struck Lukoil’s Volgograd refinery, stopping operations, while Belgorod regional authorities reported near-daily attacks using dozens of drones and munitions with civilian casualties and damage.