Overview

• The Russian Defense Ministry announced the capture of Poltavka in Zaporizhzhia and released video, saying forces cleared more than 500 structures across an area of over 12 square kilometers.
• Moscow reported coordinated attacks on Ukrainian transport and logistics infrastructure using aircraft, drones, rockets and artillery, describing 143 targeted areas across several regions.
• Russian units publicized FPV-drone strikes that they say destroyed Ukrainian vehicles near Pokrovsk and in Kharkiv, alongside claims of heavy Ukrainian personnel losses across the West, South, Vostok and Dnepr sectors.
• Overnight Ukraine-linked drones struck inside Russia, with the Orenburg gas processing plant reporting fire damage and local reports of an attack on the Novokuybyshevsk refinery in Samara, as regional officials confirmed drone activity.
• Regional authorities reported a man wounded in a drone attack on a facility in Shebekino, Belgorod region, and air-raid alerts were posted across multiple Ukrainian oblasts through the night and morning.