Overview
- Fighting remained intense on Friday with the General Staff reporting 248 combat engagements and heavy use of drones, aviation, rockets and artillery along multiple directions.
- Ukraine carried out repeated long‑range drone strikes into Russia this week, including attacks on the Kapotnya Moscow oil refinery that caused fires and prompted ISW analysis about strained Russian air defenses.
- EU leaders in Brussels unanimously approved conclusions to deepen political, financial, economic, humanitarian and military support for Ukraine and to keep pressure on Russia.
- Ukrainian investigators have opened criminal cases over abuse of prisoners of war, charging in absentia a prison official from occupied Luhansk and charging a former National Guard serviceman who allegedly tortured fellow POWs.
- President Zelensky gave Belarus a one‑week deadline to remove relay equipment used to correct Russian strikes, and Ukrainian authorities continue emergency repairs to cultural sites after a kamikaze drone severely damaged the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra.