Overview

• Ukraine’s General Staff reported 193 clashes in the past day, with the heaviest fighting on the Pokrovsk axis where defenders stopped 59 assault attempts.
• The military said Russia conducted 4,523 shelling attacks, launched two missiles and 66 airstrikes, and employed 5,301 kamikaze drones in a single day.
• Overnight strikes damaged a locomotive depot, traction substations and other rail assets in Poltava and caused power outages in parts of Poltava and Sumy; delayed trains have resumed movement as repairs proceed.
• Regional authorities recorded 132 attacks across 44 settlements in Sumy with multiple injuries, while occupation administrators in Luhansk tightened border checks that complicate civilian crossings.
• Security services announced arrests in Kyiv of a legal ring accused of selling fake exemptions that removed over 300 men from the rolls and in Zaporizhzhia of a group accused of stealing volunteer-supplied FPV drones and medical kits for resale.