Overview
- Ukraine’s General Staff logged 161 combat engagements over the past day, with the heaviest fighting on the Pokrovsk, Kostyantynivka and Huliaipole fronts, alongside reports of 263 guided bombs and 8,107 kamikaze drones used.
- An overnight attack on an energy facility in Chernihiv region left much of the oblast without power, with authorities reporting about 430,000 customers offline and rail delays as repair crews began restoration.
- Two grain-loaded civilian ships under the flags of Palau and Barbados were damaged by Russian UAV strikes at Odesa port, injuring two people, and prosecutors opened a pre-trial war-crimes investigation.
- Operational Command North reported deliberate Russian drone attacks on territorial recruitment centers in Sumy and Chernihiv to disrupt mobilization, while Sumy regional police recorded three killed and 13 wounded in a single day of strikes.
- President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukrainian expert teams are assisting five Middle Eastern states in countering Shahed drones, with additional requests for support from the United States.