Overview

• Ukraine’s 10th Army Corps reports Russian forces concentrated near Radkivka and Holubivka and operating in small assault groups around the city.
• Counter-sabotage units are detaining infiltrators and have disabled a gas pipeline that Russian troops used to approach Kupiansk’s outskirts.
• Ukrainian officials say some Russian fighters enter in civilian clothes to gather intelligence or stage flag photos for propaganda, which they describe as a war crime.
• The military disputes online claims of captured districts, saying those areas remain active combat zones where Ukrainian assault groups are engaged.
• BBC News Ukraine reports that former Ukrainian officer Serhii Storozhenko now commands Russia’s 6th Combined Arms Army involved in the push on Kupiansk.