Overview
- Russia’s Defense Ministry said operational aviation, strike drones, rockets and artillery hit energy and transport nodes, a UAV assembly shop, ammunition depots and other sites across 142 areas in Ukraine.
- Moscow reported continued encirclement operations near Kupyansk and around Krasnoarmeysk, claiming 12 Ukrainian counterattacks were repelled and a breakout group was destroyed by FPV drone strikes.
- The ‘South’ grouping reported up to 160 Ukrainian personnel killed in the Donetsk sector and the ‘Dnepr’ grouping claimed 65 more, with a Ukrainian tank and a D‑20 howitzer reported destroyed near Konstantinivka.
- Regional authorities in Russia said Ukrainian drones struck energy and industrial sites near Vladimir, Orel and in Yaroslavl region, as air defenses reported shooting down 40 UAVs and Belgorod region logged nearly 90 drone attacks and over 15 munitions in a day.
- Officials reported civilian deaths in Hola Prystan in the Russian‑held Kherson region and in Kamianka‑Dniprovska in Zaporizhzhia, while blasts were also reported after air alerts in Mykolaiv and Odesa.