Overview
- Russia’s Defense Ministry said the Southern grouping took the Donetsk settlement of Svyato-Pokrovskoe and the Center grouping blocked an 82nd Air Assault Brigade breakthrough attempt near Grishino while striking encircled units in Dimitrov.
- The ministry claimed about 1,445 Ukrainian personnel losses across fronts in a day, including up to 265 in the Sever zone, along with destroyed armor, artillery and two Israeli‑made RADA radars.
- Explosions were reported in Novoshakhtinsk in Russia’s Rostov region after an aerial attack with no casualties initially indicated, and in Chernihiv during an air‑raid alert, according to regional authorities and Ukrainian media.
- Russian courts issued in‑absentia sentences to Ukrainian General Eduard Moskalev and Colonel Alexey Dmitrashkovsky over alleged terror acts in the Kursk region, and separately sentenced a Ukrainian military police official to 13 years for alleged abuse of Russian POWs.
- The Investigative Committee reported FSB officers fatally shot a suspect during an arrest in Tyumen over an alleged pipeline plot, and Rosatom’s chief said Ukrainian fire on Enerhodar’s shoreline aims to intimidate Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant staff.