Overview
- Russia’s defense ministry reported about 1,355 Ukrainian personnel killed in the past 24 hours across multiple fronts, with losses apportioned to the “Sever,” “Zapad,” “Yuzhnaya,” “Tsentr,” “Vostok” and “Dnepr” groupings.
- Officials said strikes targeted energy facilities supporting Ukraine’s military‑industrial complex, storage and preparation sites for long‑range attack drones, and military command, air‑defense and radar nodes in Sumy, Chernihiv, Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia, Dnipropetrovsk, Odessa and Kherson regions.
- Russian forces reported ongoing offensive actions, including efforts around Kupyansk to block breakout attempts and destroy surrounded Ukrainian groupings, and said a push by Ukraine’s 425th “Skala” assault unit was foiled near Krasnoarmeysk/Dymytrov.
- Regional authorities reported extensive UAV activity against Russia, with nearly 90 drones striking Belgorod region and injuring civilians, a massed drone attack on Volgograd energy sites repelled without damage, and two foreign civilian ships damaged in a night drone strike on the port of Tuapse.
- Russian sources said several Ukrainian servicemen surrendered in Kharkiv region, the Russian embassy in Stockholm reported no suspects identified in repeated paint‑drone incidents, and authorities are searching for a serviceman who escaped custody in Belgorod.