Overview
- Ukraine’s General Staff logged 217 combat engagements in the past 24 hours, including 76 in the Pokrovsk sector following 72 there the previous day.
- The 7th Rapid Response Corps reports more than 300 Russian troops inside Pokrovsk after fog-enabled infiltrations with light vehicles, as Ukrainian units hunt small groups in the city.
- Southern Defense Forces confirm withdrawals from positions near five settlements in Zaporizhzhia and a further repositioning near Rivnopillia to save personnel, later saying the enemy advance was halted.
- Ukraine’s Special Operations Forces say drones ignited a fire at Lukoil’s Stavrolen petrochemical complex in Budyonnovsk, while the General Staff reported blasts after a strike on Russia’s Orsk refinery.
- Anti-corruption agencies charged seven people over an alleged $100 million Energoatom kickback scheme, and the government dismissed the utility’s supervisory board and ordered an urgent audit.