The Kyiv Independent

Ukraine has launched a new offensive, dubbed Operation Vivaldi, recapturing several towns from Russian forces and inflicting around 2,000 troop losses, according to reports. The claimed gains come as Kyiv seeks to press advantages on the battlefield while Western attention is divided by other global crises. Figures from Ukrainian offensives typically cannot be independently verified.

Ukraine's General Staff reports that Russian forces lost 1,440 soldiers killed and wounded over the past day. The figures are part of the cumulative combat losses Russia has recorded since the full-scale invasion began on 24 February 2022. Daily casualty tallies from Kyiv remain a widely cited, though unverified independently, measure of the war's ongoing intensity and the sustained pressure on Russian manpower.