Overview
- Russia’s Defense Ministry reported long-range precision strikes on Ukrainian arms production, energy and transport infrastructure, and military airfields, claiming all designated targets were hit.
- The ministry said forces struck 143 locations in the past 24 hours, including a workshop producing long-range drones, airfield preparation and launch sites, and areas housing Ukrainian units and foreign fighters.
- Official figures from Moscow attributed roughly 1,230 Ukrainian troop losses over the last day, with battlegroup-by-battlegroup tallies and reports of destroyed armor, depots and electronic warfare assets.
- Russian officials said air defenses downed 494 Ukrainian fixed-wing UAVs and four guided aerial bombs in the same period, alongside publishing broad cumulative destruction totals since the war began.
- Ukraine’s General Staff reported 152 combat clashes and heavy fighting in the Kostiantynivka and Pokrovsk sectors, citing extensive Russian airstrikes, guided bomb drops and thousands of kamikaze drones.