Overview
- According to Russia’s Defense Ministry, forces took Stepnogorsk in Zaporizhzhia along with Dimitrov, Rodinskoye, Artemovka and Volnoye in the Donetsk region, and completed the capture of Hulyaipole.
- The ministry reported up to 1,240 Ukrainian personnel killed in the past day, along with a tank and five U.S.-made M113 armored personnel carriers destroyed.
- Russian forces said they struck energy facilities tied to Ukraine’s defense industry, shops producing rocket engine components, long‑range drone assembly and launch preparation sites, and troop locations in 148 areas.
- Air defenses were reported to have downed a guided aerial bomb and 370 drones in 24 hours; in a separate three‑hour period, 21 Ukrainian UAVs were intercepted over Rostov region, the Sea of Azov and Krasnodar Krai.
- RIA Novosti’s tally of defense ministry reports put the weekly total at 13 settlements taken across Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia and the Donetsk region, while units near Kupiansk reported FPV‑drone strikes on Ukrainian equipment and the repulse of two attacks.