Overview
- Russia’s Defense Ministry said the ‘Vostok’ grouping took Kosovtsevo in Zaporizhzhia, secured more than 23 square kilometers after advancing up to 4 kilometers in depth and 6 along the front, and established a staging area toward Ternovatoye.
- Weekly Russian tallies claimed Ukrainian losses of over 3,395 personnel in the ‘Center’ sector, more than 1,515 in ‘West,’ over 1,230 in ‘North,’ and up to 365 in ‘Dnepr,’ with the MoD also reporting the capture of Andreevka, Zarechnoye, Vysokoye, Vilcha and Prilipka.
- Air‑raid alerts were declared Friday in Kyiv and five northern regions, according to Ukraine’s Ministry of Digital Transformation online map.
- A series of explosions was reported near Kharkiv, the Ukrainian broadcaster Hromadske said.
- At a Kremlin meeting on the new state armament program for 2027–2036, President Vladimir Putin highlighted output growth since 2022, including munitions up more than 22 times, military aircraft 4.6 times and armored vehicles 2.2 times, and emphasized synchronizing R&D with testing infrastructure.