Overview

• Zelenskyy met Security Service chief Vasyl Maliuk for a detailed briefing on recent long-range strikes and the situation around Pokrovsk.
• Ukraine reports that SSU-operated long-range drones are growing more effective at disabling Russian air-defense systems.
• Kyiv credits the SSU’s Centre of Special Operations A with eliminating over 100 Russian soldiers per day near Pokrovsk and 3,028 in the past month.
• Since the Dobropillia counteroffensive began on August 21, Zelenskyy reports more than 12,000 Russian losses in the Pokrovsk–Dobropillia areas, including over 7,200 described as irrecoverable.
• Zelenskyy approved new asymmetric SSU missions, as officials reported detaining an alleged FSB agent and cited a roughly 20% gasoline shortfall inside Russia.