Overview
- The Defense Ministry says the “North” grouping is pushing deeper each day while establishing a border security zone in Sumy and Kharkiv.
- The “West” grouping reports taking more favorable positions and up to 200 Ukrainian casualties, claiming destroyed ammunition depots and equipment near Kupyansk and Lyman.
- The “Center” grouping claims improved tactical footing with up to 440 Ukrainian losses, citing destroyed tanks and other armor in parts of Donetsk and Dnipropetrovsk regions.
- Russian forces say they disrupted the rotation of Ukraine’s 119th Territorial Defense Brigade and the 253rd “Arei” assault regiment in Sumy, destroying transport.
- Security agencies report Ukrainian units withdrawing from positions in Kharkiv with intensive mining, a 15‑year sentence in Krasnodar for an attempted freight‑train bombing, an arrest in Bashkortostan over an alleged plot against an energy site, and a diplomat’s claim of about 130 civilians injured by drones since January.