Authors: Olha Polishchuk, Cristian Vlas
Key trends
- In the Donetsk region, Russian forces continued to advance around Pokrovsk, seizing a village east of the city. Russian forces also made advances south and southwest of Kostiantynivka and west of Velyka Novosilka.
- Russian forces made gains north of Kupiansk in the Kharkiv region and near the international border with Russia in the Sumy region.
- ACLED records at least 23 Russian long-range missile and drone strikes, including in Kyiv city and the Kyiv region, as well as the western regions of Rivne, Ternopil, and Ivano-Frankivsk.
- Russian shelling, missiles, aerial bombs, and drones killed at least 18 civilians in the Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Kharkiv, Kherson, and Sumy regions. Ukrainian shelling and drone strikes reportedly killed 13 civilians in the Russian-occupied parts of the Donetsk, Kherson, and Zaporizhia regions.