Overview
- Ukraine's General Staff reported 286 combat clashes over the previous day, with the Pokrovsk sector seeing the heaviest pressure.
- Ukrainian Special Operations Forces said long-range Middle-strike missions hit military sites in Crimea and Zaporizhzhia and struck the Rubikon unmanned systems base in occupied Donetsk.
- Odesa officials said overnight drones ignited fires and damaged multiple high-rise buildings and student housing, injuring at least three people.
- Russia announced control of Sopych in Sumy and Kalenyky in Donetsk and later claimed Aleksandrovka, assertions that remain unverified.
- Ukraine reported shooting down 128 drones in recent barrages, while Russian authorities reported Ukrainian drone strikes in Krasnodar and claimed interceptions over Crimea and Sevastopol.