Overview
- The General Staff logged 216 combat engagements in the past 24 hours, with 75 assaults repelled on the Pokrovsk axis, the most intense sector of the front.
- Russian forces conducted 66 airstrikes and dropped 164 guided bombs, carried out 4,122 shelling attacks including 124 from MLRS, and launched 4,082 kamikaze drones in a single day.
- The Energy Ministry reported strikes on power facilities in Kharkiv, Sumy, Chernihiv, Odesa and Donetsk regions, prompting repair work, nationwide scheduled outages, port power disruptions in Odesa, water and heat losses in Donetsk, and rail damage in Dnipropetrovsk.
- Regional authorities said a nighttime rocket strike on Balakliia killed three people and injured 15, including three children, damaging residential buildings and a kindergarten.
- Southern command reported intensified fighting around Huliaipole with attempts to advance from the north and east toward a key logistics route, alongside an approximately 80% rise in Shahed use to about 100 per day and expanded attacks using FPV drones.