Overview
- DNR leader Denis Pushilin said taking Rovnoye has expanded a security buffer around Krasnoarmeysk, following Russian claims of control over the village.
- Russia’s Defense Ministry said it disrupted a Ukrainian reserve redeployment near Kirillovka in Kharkiv region and reported heavy Ukrainian losses in that sector, while a Ukrainian counterattack west of Lyman was described as unsuccessful.
- The Russian military’s Vostok grouping reported destroying a Humvee, several pickups, and an enemy strongpoint near Huliaipole in Zaporizhzhia using FPV drones and Grad rockets.
- Belgorod authorities tallied about 71 drone attacks across 10 districts in 24 hours, and officials in Leningrad, Voronezh, Tula, Rostov, and Smolensk reported drones shot down, with limited damage that included power-line disruptions and a damaged roof in Rostov region.
- Regional updates noted power outages for 11,958 subscribers in parts of Zaporizhzhia after a UAV strike, reports of 50 artillery strikes on left-bank areas of Kherson region, and explosions with air-raid alerts in Ukrainian-controlled cities such as Zaporizhzhia, Dnipropetrovsk, Okhtyrka, and Chuhuiv.