Overview
- Ukraine’s General Staff reported 143 combat engagements in the past day, with 50 Russian assault attempts stopped in the Pokrovsk sector.
- Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi said Pokrovsk and nearby Mirnograd are not encircled, logistics continue, and the defense is being reinforced with additional units and drones.
- Ukrainian updates through Saturday evening logged 131 engagements and 49 assaults on the Pokrovsk axis, with ongoing close combat and counter-sabotage actions in the area.
- Ukraine’s military intelligence says it disabled the ‘Kiltsevyi’ fuel pipeline in Moscow region, and Russian regional officials reported overnight drone strikes that damaged a tanker and oil terminal in Tuapse.
- Regional authorities reported civilian casualties across several oblasts, including two dead and 22 injured in Kherson, two dead and at least eight injured in Dnipropetrovsk, and a drone strike injuring a driver and burning a minibus in Sumy.