Overview
- Ukraine's General Staff, in its Tuesday night update, logged 189 frontline clashes and said Russian forces launched 40 assaults on the Pokrovsk sector, the most active part of the line.
- Following Monday's mass air attack that targeted Dnipro and other regions, Ukraine's air force reported it neutralized four Iskander-K cruise missiles and 503 attack drones, though debris and strikes still injured civilians and damaged housing and energy sites.
- Ukraine confirmed Tuesday that its forces hit the Lukoil refinery in Nizhny Novgorod on Monday and the Yaroslavl‑3 oil pumping station, and separately reported a strike on a Russian Grachonok-class counter‑sabotage boat near Kaspiysk in Dagestan.
- Regional authorities reported fresh civilian harm, with deaths and injuries in Kharkiv and Sumy and widespread damage across Zaporizhzhia after hundreds of drone, artillery, and guided‑bomb attacks on towns and basic services.
- At the UN Security Council on Tuesday, a senior UN official cited one of the largest air barrages since the full‑scale invasion and the highest monthly civilian toll since July 2025, while the UK and France condemned Russia and pressed for a full ceasefire.