Overview
- Russia’s defense ministry and affiliated units reported strikes across Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia, including a claimed hit on a temporary deployment point in the DNR with up to 30 Ukrainian troops killed and an Uragan salvo near Malaya Tokmachka that they say killed up to 20 and supported assaults.
- The Russian ‘West’ grouping said FPV drone teams near Kupyansk destroyed three pickups, a minibus and a ground robotic system that were attempting to reach encircled Ukrainian forces.
- Russian forces reported discovering and beginning to demine two abandoned Ukrainian weapons and ammunition depots in Kupyansk’s Kolontaevka district.
- Voronezh regional authorities said air defenses downed several aerial targets over the city, with debris damaging a house roof and a car and no reported casualties.
- Ukraine’s High Anti-Corruption Court ordered former vice prime minister Oleksii Chernyshov held for 60 days in the Energoatom theft investigation with a 51.6 million hryvnias bail option, a decision he called unfounded.