Overview
- Ukraine’s General Staff recorded 237 combat engagements by 22:00, reporting 56 airstrikes, 147 guided bombs, 2,275 attack drones and 2,382 shelling incidents.
- The heaviest fighting was on the Lyman and Pokrovsk axes, with 31 and 50 assaults respectively reported over the day.
- In Kupiansk, Ukrainian forces are conducting clearing operations in the city as Russian troops try to push nearby on the left bank of the Oskil without success.
- A guided-bomb strike in Kharkiv’s Shevchenkivskyi district killed two people and injured eight, including a nine-month-old, after three KABs were launched at the area.
- Officials confirmed 52 residents taken from Grabovske are being held in a frontline region of Russia, and negotiations for their return are underway.