Overview
- The Defense Ministry said about 1,460 Ukrainian troops were lost in 24 hours across multiple sectors, and later reported more than 465 losses in the Center grouping’s area while repelling eight attempts to relieve forces encircled in Krasnoarmeysk.
- Russian units reported strike-drone hits on Ukrainian tanks concealed in farm hangars near Orikhiv and the destruction of a self-propelled gun and an R-18 hexacopter near Kostyantynivka.
- Belgorod’s governor said rockets struck regional energy facilities, and the regional operations center logged over 100 UAV attacks and more than 35 munitions in a day, with injuries and damage to civilian sites reported.
- Regional authorities said air defenses were active over Kursk, and Sochi’s mayor announced a declared threat of a drone attack over the city.
- At the ODKB summit in Bishkek, Vladimir Putin proposed stronger information-security measures, improvements to peacekeeper activation, and a program to equip collective forces with Russian weapons, as a bloc declaration warned about rival military infrastructure moving closer to member borders.