Overview
- Ukraine’s General Staff recorded 136 engagements today, including 40 assaults on the Pokrovsk axis, with 31 airstrikes dropping 77 guided bombs, 2,559 artillery strikes and 3,202 kamikaze‑drone attacks.
- The previous day saw 209 engagements and 4,412 kamikaze‑drone strikes, while Zelensky reported over the past week 94 rockets, more than 2,100 strike drones and about 800 guided bombs used by Russia.
- After their Mar‑a‑Lago meeting, Zelensky said most points of a 20‑item plan are agreed and called for a four‑party working group of Ukraine, the U.S., Europe and Russia, with territory and Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant governance still unresolved.
- Ukrainian forces denied Russian claims of fully seizing Rodynske, and ISW assessed the Kremlin is overstating battlefield gains to project a narrative of Ukrainian collapse.
- Regional officials reported one civilian killed in Sloviansk and multiple wounded across Donetsk, Kherson, Kharkiv and Sumy, while Germany stressed any peace requires Russia’s consent, Estonia urged stronger pressure on Moscow, and Poland’s Tusk said talks remain far from a finish.