Overview
- Four Ukrainian soldiers were seized during an assault on an observation post on the Pokrovsk front, according to the 7th Rapid Response Corps.
- Aerial reconnaissance located the escorting Russian sabotage group before Ukrainian strike units launched their drones.
- FPV aircraft from the 25th Sicheslav Airborne Brigade, the 68th Jaeger Brigade and adjacent units approached as a swarm, distracting the captors and enabling the prisoners to escape.
- More than ten strike drones then engaged the Russian group, which the Ukrainian report says was killed.
- Separately, Ukrainian forces reported repelling an assault on Hryshyne in Donetsk region, and the Navy shared video of a drone-directed surrender of a Russian soldier near Ivanivka.