Overview
- Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov said Russian troops are pressing forward in nearly all directions in the conflict zone.
- The Defence Ministry reported the capture of Chervonoe in Donetsk and Novodanilovka in Zaporizhzhia, along with claims of up to 1,275 Ukrainian personnel lost in the past day.
- Official summaries said strikes hit infrastructure and military sites in 142 areas and that air defences downed 171 fixed‑wing‑type drones.
- Regional authorities reported four people, including a child, injured in a drone attack in Cheboksary, while Rostov region said air defences repelled UAVs across six districts without casualties and Volgograd recorded damage to three apartment buildings.
- Tactical updates included a reported TOС Solntsepyok strike on a strongpoint in Huliaipole, a D‑20 howitzer hit on a temporary site on the Dnipro’s right bank, and the destruction of six Ukrainian assault groups near Andriivka, Kondratovka and Sadky in Sumy region.