Overview
- Ukraine’s General Staff reported 177 combat engagements in the past day, with heavy fighting around Pokrovsk where a mechanized assault was resisted, and dismissed Russian claims of taking Siversk.
- The military’s latest tally claims Russia’s total personnel losses have surpassed 1,183,620, with additional daily losses in artillery, vehicles and drones.
- Power outages continue in Mykolaiv and Kharkiv regions as nationwide consumption limits remain in force, and the government moves to revise critical-infrastructure lists and permit state companies to import electricity.
- The High Anti-Corruption Court ordered custody with bail for MP Anna Skorokhod in a case alleging a $250,000 offer to secure RNBO sanctions on a rival firm, while courts set bail or detention for alleged accomplices.
- Prosecutors say a group moving orphans abroad for illegal adoptions tried to traffic at least 25 children, with 13 already taken out before being stopped; separately, the SBU and police foiled a Russia-directed IED plot involving a 16-year-old in Zhytomyr.