Russian forces liberated Okhrymovka in Kharkiv region and Roskoshnoye in DPR, destroying up to 1,220 servicemen and 27 armored vehicles. Air defense systems intercepted 10 guided bombs, 3 HIMARS rockets, 3 Neptune missiles, and 798 drones. Ukraine attacked Energodar, an MChS vehicle in Svatovo, and a cemetery in Veseloye.
Military expert Andrey Marochko told TASS that Ukraine has increased troop numbers along the Belarusian-Ukrainian border, with servicemen now present in Chernigov and Zhitomir Regions where they were not before. Ukrainian troops are fortifying old positions and establishing new ones, with an echeloned defensive line being constructed with civilian population involvement.
Ukrainian armed forces lost nearly 7,260 servicemen and mercenaries in the special military operation zone over the past week, according to military expert Andrey Marochko's analysis of Russian Defense Ministry reports. Russia's battlegroup Center inflicted the greatest losses along the western border of the Donetsk People’s Republic and in the Dnepropetrovsk Region.
Having lost the initiative on the battlefield, Ukrainian servicemen resorted to terrorist tactics, attempting to attack deep within Russia with drones
