Overview
- The General Staff’s evening update tallied 50 airstrikes, 106 guided bombs, 2,339 kamikaze drones and 3,281 shellings used by Russian forces over the day.
- Preliminary figures from the Pokrovsk direction cite 104 Russian personnel neutralized, including 55 irrecoverable losses, with vehicles, motorcycles and drones destroyed or damaged.
- Ukrainian troops reported repelling attacks across multiple fronts, including nine at Kupiansk (two clashes ongoing), ten at Sloviansk, eleven at Kostiantynivka (ten stopped), and sixteen on the Oleksandrivka axis (three ongoing).
- Additional fighting was recorded at Lyman, Kramatorsk, Huliaipole, Orikhiv and along the Prydneprovsk sector as Russian forces probed defenses in several localities.
- President Volodymyr Zelenskyy described the Pokrovsk situation as difficult, said a large Russian grouping was concentrated there, and rejected claims of Ukrainian encirclement.