Overview
- Ukraine’s General Staff reported 170 engagements in the past day, including 63 attacks repelled in the Pokrovsk–Myrnohrad area, alongside thousands of strikes and drone launches by Russian forces.
- Updated Ukrainian tallies put Russia’s cumulative personnel losses at about 1,153,180 and list extensive equipment losses, figures Kyiv says draw in part on UAV video verification and unit scoring via the Brave1 marketplace.
- ISW assesses the Pokrovsk sector remains highly contested, noting Ukrainian counterattacks that slowed recent Russian advances, ongoing assaults in eastern and southern Pokrovsk, and Russian fire control threatening Ukrainian logistics.
- The SBU arrested an alleged FSB agent in Kharkiv as he rigged an F‑1 grenade tripwire in a city park; he has been charged with treason and preparing a terrorist act and faces a potential life sentence, while a separate GRU agent was sentenced to 15 years for espionage in Chernihiv region.
- The Prosecutor General’s Office says 1,553 cultural heritage sites have been damaged or destroyed, and Ukraine’s military intelligence published details on 1,233 artworks looted from the Kherson Art Museum, including pieces taken to occupied Crimea.