Overview

• Ukraine’s General Staff reported 168 engagements in the past 24 hours, with 58 Russian assaults concentrated on the Pokrovsk sector and two dozen each on the Kostiantynivka and Oleksandrivka axes.
• Vice Prime Minister Olexiy Kuleba said Russia hit railway and port infrastructure overnight, damaging a traction substation in Chernihiv region and port facilities in Odesa, with train reroutings and no reported casualties.
• The General Staff counted two missile strikes using four missiles, 74 airstrikes with 165 guided bombs, and 5,482 kamikaze drones over the day; air defenses downed 38 drones overnight, but three ballistic missiles and 20 drones struck 12 locations.
• Ukraine’s Air Assault Forces reported a Russian sabotage group infiltrated central Pokrovsk near the railway station and killed several civilians before Ukrainian units located and eliminated the group, with city defenses reinforced.
• Kyiv updated Russia’s cumulative personnel losses to about 1,131,070 since February 2022, including 890 in the last day, and said Ukrainian forces hit multiple enemy troop and artillery sites.