Overview
- The General Staff, which reported 229 combat engagements Sunday, said Russian forces carried out 127 air strikes, used 9,192 strike drones and conducted 3,001 shellings of positions and populated areas.
- Ukrainian authorities and President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed attacks inside Russia and on occupied territory that Kyiv says hit an oil facility in Yaroslavl, the Azot plant in Tula and a command post near Nekislitsa in Bryansk.
- Britain intercepted and boarded the tanker SMYRTOS in the English Channel in an operation announced by Prime Minister Keir Starmer to disrupt the so-called shadow fleet that helps finance and supply Russian operations.
- Southern defence officials report Russia is shifting logistics to remote depots, moving ammunition by civilian cars with trailers and shifting personnel in small groups on secondary roads to reduce vulnerability to targeting.
- The scale of Russian drone and guided-bomb attacks is straining Ukraine's air-defence systems and Kyiv says it will press partners at upcoming G7, EU and NATO meetings for additional air-defence and long-range strike capabilities.