Overview
- Ukraine’s General Staff said Monday saw 152 frontline engagements, with the heaviest fighting on the Pokrovsk axis where forces repelled 27 assaults.
- The military reported 51 airstrikes that dropped 160 guided bombs along with 5,567 attack drones and 2,708 barrages on towns and positions in the same period.
- Russian officials reported a mass drone raid overnight that set a fuel tank ablaze at Primorsk port near St. Petersburg, a Transneft hub that can handle about 1 million barrels of crude a day and is key for Urals exports.
- Ukraine said its forces struck Russian air defenses and logistics nodes, including a Tor system in occupied Donetsk, a Tunguska and a Nebo-U radar in Russia’s Bryansk region, plus drone and ammunition depots and a fuel storage site supporting front-line units.
- Civilian and infrastructure costs mounted, with fresh blackouts in five regions reported by Ukraine’s grid operator, at least four people killed and 11 injured a day earlier in four oblasts, and the UN now confirming more than 15,000 civilian deaths since 2022.