Overview
- The Ukrainian General Staff reported 213 combat clashes along the front, with the heaviest fighting concentrated in the Pokrovsk and Huliaipole sectors.
- Ukraine said Russian forces launched a large air and drone campaign that included about 81 airstrikes, 244 guided bombs and roughly 9,752 kamikaze drones in a single day.
- Ukrainian Air Force, missile units and artillery struck 14 areas of Russian troop concentration, destroyed two drone-control centers and hit enemy artillery systems and depots.
- Defenders repelled roughly 30 assaults on the Pokrovsk axis and the General Staff gave preliminary estimates of 34 Russian troops killed and 21 wounded on that axis.
- The General Staff updated cumulative Russian combat losses to about 1,384,190 while noting these tallies come from Ukrainian operational updates and are not independently verifiable, a pattern that highlights intense attrition and continued civilian risk along the front.