Overview
- Ukraine’s General Staff logged 237 combat engagements over the past day, naming the Pokrovsk and Huliaipole sectors as the most active fronts.
- Kyiv says its forces hold the Donetsk settlements of Nykiforivka, Nelipivka, Nove Shakhove, and Zatyshok and report localized counterattacks that narrowed gray zones near Vyshneve, Verbove, and Ternove.
- Ukraine reported strikes on Russian and occupied command posts, logistics hubs, and troop concentrations in Zaporizhzhia and Kherson oblasts, as well as in Crimea and Luhansk.
- Russia said air defenses intercepted 149 Ukrainian drones overnight and confirmed a man killed in Sevastopol, injuries in Bryansk, and a fire at the Velikiye Luki oil depot in Pskov Region.
- Regional authorities in Ukraine reported at least nine civilians injured in the past day and damage to energy and industrial sites, including power outages in Zaporizhzhia and a Naftogaz facility hit in Poltava, while by afternoon Ukraine recorded 51 additional clashes with the heaviest pressure on the Pokrovsk axis.