Overview
- Russia's defense ministry said its forces hit Ukrainian transport links and temporary deployment sites in 143 districts using aircraft, drones, rockets and artillery.
- The ministry said units of the Vostok group took Poltavka in Zaporizhia and released footage from the operation.
- DPR head Denis Pushilin reported that Russian troops broke a multilayered Ukrainian defensive line near Novopavlovka, with a unit commander describing ambush tactics used in the assault.
- Ukrainian drones struck the Orenburg gas processing plant and reportedly the Novokuybyshevsk refinery, as Russian air defenses reported downing drones over several regions and air-raid alerts sounded across multiple Ukrainian oblasts, including an explosion in Pavlograd.
- A man was wounded in Shebekino, Belgorod region, in a drone attack on an industrial site, according to the regional governor.