Overview
- Ukraine’s General Staff reported 159 frontline clashes in the past day, saying Russian forces used 9,096 one-way attack drones, 73 airstrikes with 234 guided bombs, and 3,231 artillery strikes.
- Kyiv updated its cumulative estimate of Russian personnel losses to about 1,322,550 since February 2022 and said 1,110 of those were in the past day, noting it does not publish its own detailed losses.
- Ukrainian units said they repelled dozens of assaults across several sectors, including 36 in the Pokrovsk area, and struck six troop-and-equipment clusters plus three command posts and an artillery piece.
- Russia’s Defense Ministry issued its own daily figures claiming more than 1,325 Ukrainian troops killed or wounded and said air defenses downed 418 Ukrainian drones and 10 guided bombs, figures that could not be verified.
- The heavy use of cheap, expendable attack drones reflects how both sides fight at long range, which can overwhelm air defenses and complicate casualty recovery, a pattern seen throughout the war’s high-intensity phases.