Overview

• Ukraine’s General Staff counted 187 engagements in the past 24 hours, reporting 79 airstrikes, 117 guided bombs, 4,945 artillery strikes and 6,337 kamikaze drones used by Russian forces.
• Fighting was most intense on the Pokrovsk axis, where defenders stopped 58 assaults, with heavy attacks also recorded on the Lyman, Siversk, Novopavlivka and Toretsk fronts.
• Kyiv confirmed a night strike on Russia’s Kirishi oil refinery that caused explosions and a fire, while intelligence sources reported an earlier drone attack on Ufa’s Bashneft plant; results are being assessed.
• Ukrainian intelligence and special operations units were credited by sources with combined actions that disrupted the Orel–Kursk and St. Petersburg–Pskov rail lines in Russia, causing delays and reported Rosgvardiya casualties.
• Romania said an intruding Russian ‘Geran’ drone was tracked by F-16s for about 50 minutes before it returned to Ukraine; Bucharest summoned Russia’s ambassador as EU officials condemned the breach.