Overview
- The General Staff counted 126 combat engagements in the past day, including 34 Russian assaults on the Pokrovsk axis, 16 on Kostyantynivka, and 17 near Huliaipole.
- The Energy Ministry and Ukrenergo reported new outages in Sumy, Dnipropetrovsk, Kherson, Kharkiv, and Chernihiv regions, with consumption limits and hourly shutoffs applied across all regions today.
- A strike on a thermal power plant near Kharkiv killed one person and wounded 11, temporarily disrupting metro service and prompting emergency outages as damage assessments continued.
- President Volodymyr Zelensky outlined a 20-point draft framework covering security guarantees, an 800,000 troop ceiling in peacetime, an EU accession timetable, and funding mechanisms targeting $800 billion for recovery, with territorial arrangements and the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant still unresolved.
- Chernobyl’s New Safe Confinement remains damaged; the plant director warned a further strike could compromise the internal shell and said full restoration would take three to four years, while radiation levels stay within norms.