Overview

• Ukraine’s air defenses shot down 61 of 85 Shahed drones and intercepted an Iskander-M missile during an overnight Russian assault.
• Ukrainian units cleared occupiers from parts of Dobropillia and reinforced positions in the Pokrovsk sector to halt further advances.
• Forces pushed Russian troops back about 2 km on the Sumy front as active counterattacks continued.
• Kyiv rejected a reported Kremlin offer to freeze Kherson and Zaporizhia in exchange for Donetsk and Luhansk after the Putin–Trump talks.
• Guided-bomb and drone strikes in the Nikopol district damaged infrastructure and caused at least one confirmed civilian death.