Overview
- Russia’s Defense Ministry said its Vostok grouping seized Zarechnoe in Zaporizhzhia, describing continued advances through Ukrainian defenses.
- RIA Novosti published purported radio intercepts of Ukrainian troops unable to find cover, and Le Monde reported doubts in Kyiv’s lines east of Sloviansk after Russia’s earlier capture of Seversk.
- Orenburg’s governor said air defenses repelled a Ukrainian drone attack on a regional enterprise, with only minor infrastructure damage reported.
- Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Moscow will shape its response to the U.S. peace proposal based on Kirill Dmitriev’s report from Miami talks, as Belarus’s KGB chief reported new U.S. ideas to Minsk and Russia’s UN envoy condemned alleged U.S. tanker seizures near Venezuela.
- Russia’s Supreme Court left Larisa Dolina’s disputed Moscow apartment with buyer Polina Lurye, prompting Sergey Stepashin to suggest courts may revisit similar fraud-linked real estate cases.