Overview
- The Ukrainian General Staff said Tuesday that its forces fought about 203 separate engagements with Russian troops, with the fiercest pressure on the Pokrovsk and Kostyantynivka directions.
- The General Staff reported very large numbers of kamikaze drones and dozens of air‑delivered guided bombs used by Russia, detailing thousands of drone strikes and hundreds of aviation attacks on positions and towns.
- Ukraine confirmed long‑range strikes on Russian energy and industrial targets including the Afipskyi oil refinery and installations at the Astrakhan gas‑processing plant, with Russian regional officials reporting fires and casualties at Afipskyi.
- Ukraine’s security services continued counterintelligence actions that led to multiple arrests and convictions of agents who corrected Russian strikes, including three people sentenced to 15 years for state treason.
- Civilians across Sumy, Kharkiv, Kherson and Chernihiv regions have suffered deaths, injuries and infrastructure damage as border crossings and logistics nodes are hit, a pattern that has intensified humanitarian strain and driven a 50‑country plus EU call at the UN for an immediate ceasefire.