00:15
Across the entire line of defence in eastern Ukraine, Russian invaders are trying to advance, shelling villages and launching missile and bomb strikes.
01:40
In Zaporizhzhia region, Russian forces brought a rail convoy of obsolete T-62 tanks to Melitopol, as well as 30 pieces of military equipment to the settlement of Kyrylivka. According to local residents, armoured personnel carriers were stationed at almost every intersection.
Recreation centres in Kyrylivka could be used to house occupation forces and, as a result, be looted like those in Berdiansk.
08:00
The enemy is storming Ukrainian defensive positions near the village of Ustynivka and using artillery to destroy the village and the nearby city of Lysychansk.
As a result, two people were killed in Ustynivka and one in Lysychansk. Multi-storey buildings, private houses, an enterprise building and a cultural centre were destroyed.
09:45
In occupied Mariupol, the Russians extended the school year until the end of the summer to integrate schools into the Russian education system. According to Petro Andriushchenko, adviser to the mayor of Mariupol, the main purpose was de-Ukrainianization.
10:15
Russian forces are building a third line of defence in the occupied territories of southern Ukraine.
In addition to ground forces, the Russian grouping deployed there includes air and sea components. This may indicate that “Russia wants to stay for a long time,” said Vadym Skibitskyi, a representative of Defence Intelligence of Ukraine.
11:20
Russia abducts Ukrainian children to destroy the nation, said Serhii Dvornyk, a representative of Ukraine at the UN.
“The abduction of at least 230,000 Ukrainian children among the 1.4 million Ukrainian citizens forcibly deported to Russia is a crime aimed at destroying the Ukrainian nation by depriving it of its youth, which is a modern manifestation of colonialism,” he said.
12:00
According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Russia’s estimated losses in the war against Ukraine had reached 29,600 personnel, 1,315 tanks and 502 drones.
12:45
German media reported, citing sources in NATO circles, that NATO countries had an informal understanding not to supply combat aircraft or tanks to Ukraine. According to those sources, the countries sought to avoid a direct confrontation between NATO and Russia and therefore refrained from supplying Kyiv with certain weapon systems.
13:00
The Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed a Russian roadblock on the Lysychansk–Bakhmut highway. The Russian army does not control the highway, said Serhii Haidai, head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration.
13:25
Lithuanian law enforcement officers joined prosecutors from the Specialised Prosecutor’s Office in the Military and Defence Sphere of the Joint Forces in collecting evidence of crimes committed by the Russian Federation in Ukraine.
14:10
Turkey is mediating talks between Russia and Ukraine on unblocking Ukrainian ports so that grain can be exported to other countries.
15:50
The Verkhovna Rada registered a draft law amending certain laws on Ukraine’s sanctions policy towards Belarus. The draft provided for the compulsory seizure in Ukraine of property belonging to Belarus and its residents.
16:30
Deputy Defence Minister Hanna Maliar said that Russian forces were storming Ukrainian positions simultaneously in several directions. She said the situation was escalating and the intensity of the fighting was increasing.
17:50
Russian troops in the south tried to bypass the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Mykolaiv with a reinforced platoon supported by 2 tanks and 3 infantry fighting vehicles. With support from Mi-8 helicopters, Ukrainian forces struck the unit, reportedly killing up to 7 Russian soldiers and destroying one infantry fighting vehicle. After being repelled, the unit retreated to its defensive positions.
19:35
In Mykolaiv region, officers of the State Bureau of Investigation seized 188 railway cars loaded with mineral fertilizers owned by a Belarusian company. The fertilizers and the Belarusian railway cars were worth about $20 million.
20:00
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports that Russian occupation forces are rotating reserve units in the Donetsk direction.
21:00
Russia has moved 13 battalion tactical groups into Ukraine, CNN reports.