Overview
- A Russian assault commander with the call sign “Lavrik” told RIA Novosti the military expects to fully take Kupyansk within a week.
- Russian forces reported clearing 25 buildings in the city over the past day and said about 130 remain on the right bank of the Oskol.
- Drone operators from the 'Zapad' grouping claimed they destroyed five pickup trucks carrying Ukrainian fighters on approaches to Kupyansk.
- The Defense Ministry said Ivanovo reconnaissance paratroopers used an FPV drone to destroy a temporary Ukrainian deployment point on the right bank of the Dnipro in Kherson region.
- Regional authorities announced drone-attack alerts in Yaroslavl, Dagestan, North Ossetia, Kabardino-Balkaria and Orenburg, and the Volgograd governor reported a man was killed when a UAV struck a residential building.