Overview

• Ukraine’s General Staff said there were 149 combat engagements in the past day, with 46 Russian assaults repelled on the Pokrovsk front.
• The General Staff reported 91 airstrikes, 215 guided bombs, 5,436 shelling attacks including 83 MLRS strikes, and 5,256 kamikaze drones used by Russian forces.
• Officials reported civilian casualties from Russian attacks: a woman killed and a man wounded in Kupiansk, and two killed with three injured in the Dnipropetrovsk region.
• An oil depot in occupied Feodosiia was struck by drones, causing a large fire, according to Crimea’s Kremlin-appointed leader, while Belgorod authorities reported injuries and damage from over 20 projectiles and nearly 90 drones.
• POLITICO reported leaked data indicating Russia lost 281,550 soldiers in the first eight months of 2025, a figure some open-source analysts said aligns with their estimates.