- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky reported that Russia lost over 8,000 troops in the past week due to intensified offensives taking advantage of improved spring weather.
- Zelensky warned that a prolonged conflict in the Middle East could exhaust US-supplied Patriot air defence missiles, which would benefit Russian President Vladimir Putin.
- Ukraine will no longer send its forces abroad for training, stating that Western allies lack the modern combat experience necessary for current operations, with the UK proposing to move training to Ukraine.
- Ukraine's Security Service (SBU) identified a Hungarian intelligence officer as the leader of a spy ring operating in western Ukraine, accused of recruiting former Ukrainian servicemen.
- Kyiv’s drones struck several large oil tanks at Russia's Primorsk port, forcing a pause in fuel loading and causing flights at St Petersburg's Pulkovo Airport to be grounded.
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