Overview
- Zelensky said the priority pressure points are Pokrovsk and Zaporizhzhia as Ukrainian officials reported Russian troops operating inside Pokrovsk.
- Ukrainian commanders ordered withdrawals from positions near five settlements in Zaporizhzhia to reduce exposure under intensified Russian assaults.
- Ukrainian accounts say more than 300 Russian soldiers are inside Pokrovsk, with Moscow pushing assaults that Ukrainian sources describe as growing in scale.
- Russia’s FSB claimed Kinzhal hypersonic strikes on an electronic intelligence site near Kyiv and an air base hosting F-16s, assertions that could not be independently verified.
- Ukrainian anti-corruption agencies indicted seven senior energy officials over $100 million in alleged bribes, including businessman Timur Mindich, as reports in Kyiv Post said U.S. advisers sought to soften UN resolution language on Ukraine.