Overview

• Russia’s Defense Ministry said Ukrainian forces lost up to 535 personnel in the ‘Center’ sector in the past day, with strikes reported near several locations in Donetsk and Dnipropetrovsk regions.
• The ministry separately reported up to 140 Ukrainian casualties in the ‘North’ sector and claimed advances in parts of Sumy and Kharkiv regions, including the destruction of a U.S.-made Paladin system.
• Ukrainian outlets reported explosions during air‑raid alerts in Sumy and Kharkiv, and the governor of Russia’s Kursk region said weekend attacks left three civilians dead and twelve injured.
• A Ukrainian lawmaker, Mariyana Bezuhla, said a withdrawal from Kupyansk is inevitable and argued that Russian commanders are anticipating Ukrainian moves, urging construction of deeper defense lines.
• President Volodymyr Zelensky said he discussed air defense and potential Tomahawk deliveries in back‑to‑back calls with U.S. President Donald Trump, while Poland’s security chief opposed extraditing a Nord Stream suspect and described Poland as effectively at war with Russia.