Overview
- Ukraine’s General Staff reported 216 combat engagements in the past day, with 75 assault attempts concentrated on the Pokrovsk axis.
- Southern defense officials reported a sharp surge in aerial and artillery activity, including about 1,500 kamikaze‑drone attacks and over 500 artillery strikes using roughly 2,100 rounds per day.
- Russian forces are trying to envelop Huliaipole from the north and east, with dozens of guided bombs used on nearby towns and particularly intense clashes near Yablukove.
- The Energy Ministry said strikes damaged power infrastructure in Kharkiv, Sumy, Chernihiv, Odesa and Donetsk regions as repair crews work under ongoing schedules of consumption limits.
- Kharkiv regional officials reported three dead and 15 wounded after a missile strike on Balakliia, while Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk called an explosion on the Warsaw–Lublin rail line an unprecedented act of sabotage with trains rerouted on an adjacent track.