Overview
- Ukraine’s General Staff reported 100 combat engagements so far today after 223 were recorded yesterday, with the heaviest fighting around the Pokrovsk and Kostiantynivka axes.
- Ukraine’s unmanned-systems forces said they struck the Tamanneftegaz export terminal in Russia’s Krasnodar Krai, and regional authorities reported damage to two piers, a pipeline and two vessels with fires contained.
- Russia launched overnight attacks on energy facilities in five Ukrainian regions, and a blaze at Odesa’s Pivdennyi port ignited about 30 flour and vegetable oil containers as more than 120,000 customers in the region faced outages.
- President Volodymyr Zelensky said about 52 civilians, including children, were forcibly taken from the border village of Grabovske to Russia and 13 Ukrainian service members were captured, as ISW assessed these cross-border actions as a cognitive warfare campaign.
- The U.S. confirmed detaining the supertanker Centuries near Venezuela with nearly two million barrels of oil, describing it as part of a crackdown on shadow shipping as Venezuelan officials denounced the move.