Overview

• Ukraine’s Main Intelligence Directorate said its forces hit a Russian convoy on a highway in the border Kursk region.
• Generalleutnant Esedulla Abatschew reportedly suffered the loss of an arm and a leg in the strike.
• Dagestani leader Sergej Melikow confirmed Abatschew’s serious injuries but offered no prognosis.
• Kyiv’s intelligence service framed the convoy attack as retaliation for alleged Russian war crimes.
• The episode highlights Kyiv’s growing use of cross-border strikes and the competing Russian and Ukrainian narratives of battlefield events.