Overview
- A pro-Ukrainian military channel reported Russian forces advancing further into the city, while Kyiv said efforts to expel them continue.
- Ukrainian media cited a helicopter insertion of special forces to secure routes to Pokrovsk and Myrnohrad, a claim Moscow counters by saying the unit was wiped out, with no independent verification.
- Ukraine targeted Russia’s Tuapse oil port with drones, igniting a tanker fire and damaging loading infrastructure, as Russian officials reported intercepting 164 drones across multiple regions.
- Overnight Russian strikes killed at least six people, including two children in the Dnipropetrovsk region, and caused widespread outages that left about 58,000 households without power in Zaporizhzhia.
- Kyiv said it hit a fuel pipeline in the Moscow region in a separate operation, and the IAEA warned of nuclear safety risks after damage to power infrastructure critical to Ukrainian plants.