Overview
- Ukraine’s General Staff logged 137 engagements during the day, with 34 Russian assault attempts on the Pokrovsk axis and fighting still ongoing in select locations.
- Commanders reported heavy air and drone activity, including 3,435 strike drones launched, 47 airstrikes with 101 guided bombs, and 3,332 artillery and other strikes across the front.
- The Energy Ministry said power infrastructure in Kharkiv, Sumy, Chernihiv, Odesa and Donetsk oblasts was hit, with repair crews working as regional consumption limits remained in effect.
- Regional authorities reported civilian losses from overnight and daytime attacks, including three killed and 15 injured in Balakliia and two killed with three injured in Nikopol, alongside widespread damage to civic sites and homes.
- Poland confirmed explosive sabotage on the Warsaw–Lublin rail line used for Ukraine-bound shipments, opened a multiagency probe, and received an offer of investigative assistance from Kyiv.