Overview
- Ukraine’s General Staff reported 170 combat engagements in the past day and said defenders repelled 63 attacks near Pokrovsk, as Air Assault Forces noted more than 300 Russian troops inside the city after fog‑aided infiltrations that Ukrainian units are countering.
- The Southern Defense Forces said Ukrainian troops withdrew from positions near five settlements in Zaporizhia region because of intensified assaults and destroyed fortifications, with heavy fighting continuing around Yablukove, Rivnopillia and Solodke.
- Ukraine’s military said strikes hit a Saratov oil refinery, the Orsk refinery in Russia’s Orenburg region, and a fuel terminal in occupied Feodosia, reporting explosions and fires at the sites while assessing damage.
- Ukraine’s Security Service detained an alleged FSB agent accused of installing a tripwire grenade in a Kharkiv park and arrested a separate GRU agent suspected of preparing to bomb a trunk gas pipeline serving Kharkiv and Poltava.
- Anti‑corruption bodies said a former vice prime minister was notified of suspicion in the energy‑sector “Midas” probe as seven suspects were named and more than 70 searches were conducted, while the grid operator reported rolling power cuts in several regions after recent strikes.