Overview
- Ukraine’s General Staff reported 223 combat engagements in the past day, with the fiercest action in the Pokrovsk and Kostiantynivka sectors and dozens of Russian assaults repelled.
- Ukrainian authorities say Russian forces crossed the border near Hrabovske in Sumy region and forcibly deported more than 50 civilians to Russia, while evacuations from border communities continue.
- Officials confirmed eight deaths in strikes on Odesa’s port area, with additional injuries and infrastructure damage reported at Pivdennyi, and separate guided-bomb attacks killed two people in Izium.
- Ukraine says long-range drones hit Russia’s Filanovsky oil platform in the Caspian Sea and the patrol ship Okhotnik, while the SBU claims strikes on two Su-27s at Crimea’s Belbek airfield and a radar site.
- US-hosted meetings in Miami continued as Washington proposed a trilateral national security advisers’ format; Zelenskyy signaled conditional support for progress on issues like prisoner exchanges, and Russian battlefield claims were published but remain disputed.