Overview
- Ukrainian officials say Russian troops corralled remaining residents into the village church and took more than 50, mostly elderly, across the border.
- Fighting continues on Hrabovske’s southern outskirts in what Kyiv describes as direct border combat, with Russian units roughly one kilometer inside from the frontier.
- The military states its immediate task is to remove the Russian presence in the settlement rather than attempt rescues on Russian territory.
- Civil authorities have launched additional evacuations from nearby Sumy settlements as forces work to prevent further advances and provocations.
- Lithuania’s foreign minister labeled the abductions a war crime and demanded the civilians’ immediate release, as Ukrainian services verify reports they were taken to Belgorod and review possible defensive miscalculations.