Overview
- Ukraine’s General Staff logged 126 combat engagements in the past day, with the heaviest battles on the Pokrovsk/Myrnohrad axis and fierce fighting on the Huliaipole and Kostiantynivka directions.
- Overnight attacks hit energy facilities, leaving new outages in Sumy, Dnipropetrovsk, Kherson, Kharkiv and Chernihiv, as nationwide rolling cuts continue; a strike on a Kharkiv-area thermal plant killed one person and injured 11.
- Kyiv said its forces struck Russia’s Efremov synthetic rubber plant in Tula region and hit a storage and servicing site for unmanned surface vessels near Myrne in occupied Crimea, alongside other logistics and air-defense targets.
- Ukrainian units conducted a tactical pullback from Siversk but maintain fire control, and Air Force strikes targeted buildings used by Russian drone operators in Siversk and Pokrovsk as troops work to keep supply routes open.
- President Volodymyr Zelensky outlined a 20‑point draft framework with U.S. and European partners, while authorities expanded anti‑drone net installations in Kharkiv region and security services arrested eight organizers of draft‑evasion schemes.