Overview
- The General Staff logged 187 engagements during the day, with the heaviest fighting on the Pokrovsk axis where 27 Russian assaults were reported.
- Russian forces carried out 62 air strikes dropping 173 guided bombs, employed 5,176 one‑way attack drones, and conducted 2,902 shellings of settlements and positions.
- Preliminary tallies on the Pokrovsk direction cite about 151 enemy killed and 41 wounded, with two armored fighting vehicles and multiple cars destroyed and 242 drones downed or suppressed.
- A Ukrainian brigade commander said units continue to hold parts of Pokrovsk and nearby Mirnograd, limiting a potential advance toward the Pavlohrad route.
- Russian claims of recent gains near Kostiantynivka and Lyman were denied by Ukrainian forces and assessed as overstated by the Institute for the Study of War.