Russian forces are intensifying efforts to capture Chasiv Yar, with analysts warning that its capture would open opportunities for further advances toward key Ukrainian defensive cities in Donetsk Oblast.

Russian forces are intensifying their efforts to capture Chasiv Yar and the offensive to capture Chasiv Yar would open up the nearest prospects for Russian troops to make an operationally significant advance

Russian troops launched an aerial bomb attack on a village in eastern Donetsk Oblast, killing one person and wounding two

Most churches, prayer houses, synagogues, and mosques were destroyed in Donetsk region (at least 146)

Four people were killed by Russian rocket artillery shelling in Siversk.