Overview

• Russia’s General Staff chief Valeriy Gerasimov said forces are continuing to destroy enemy units blocked south of the Kleban-Byk reservoir.
• RIA Novosti, citing a pro-Russian coordinator, reported strikes on factories and an airfield in Konotop and on infrastructure near a Poltava airbase, and a Russian UAV unit claimed airspace control over western Malaya Tokmachka.
• Regional officials in Russia said air defenses intercepted drones across nine districts of Rostov region without injuries, while Belgorod’s governor reported more than 110 UAVs launched over the past day, with casualties and damage including one death in Shebekino.
• At the OSCE in Vienna, Russian delegate Yuliya Zhadanova accused the EU and NATO of using the Poland UAV incident to justify militarization and said Western delegations demanded Moscow admit blame without evidence.
• Radio Svoboda/Current Time published a drone photo and other material that it says link soldiers of Russia’s 234th Pskov regiment to the March 4, 2022 killing of 69-year-old Valery Kizilov in Bucha.