Overview
- Russia’s Defence Ministry reported that the Vostok grouping took the settlement of Kosovtsevo in the Zaporizhzhia region.
- The ministry released footage and soldier accounts stating that troops repelled multiple kamikaze drones during the assault on the settlement.
- Russian UAV operators reportedly destroyed an M109, a 2S1 Gvozdika and several mortar crews near Huliaipole.
- Officials credited junior lieutenant Alexey Nechaev with organizing strike‑drone attacks on a dominant height and senior sailor Yegor Gavrilov with shooting down three drones to protect a mortar crew.
- These battlefield updates come from Russian official statements and state‑media interviews and were not independently verified in the provided reports.