- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky claims Russia plans to establish four ground control stations for long-range attack drones in Belarus, citing information from Ukraine's military intelligence service.
- Ukraine reported that its forces largely repelled a renewed Russian offensive, inflicting over 6,000 casualties on Russian troops during four days of intensive assault operations.
- Drone attacks caused the shutdown of Russia's Saratov oil refinery and damage to the port of Primorsk, while a Russian drone strike killed a passenger on an electric train in Ukraine's Kharkiv region.
- Ukraine's SBU identified a Hungarian intelligence officer as the alleged leader of a spy ring in western Ukraine, accused of recruiting former servicemen to gather military and political intelligence.
- The UK reiterated its support for Ukraine at the UN Security Council, noting Russia's escalating drone use and significant civilian casualties, with a UN official describing the conflict's violence as 'worse than ever'.
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