Russian troops launched an offensive on the border of Lugansk and Kharkov regions

The Russian army launched an offensive on the border of the Lugansk and Kharkov regions. An air raid alert was declared in all regions of Ukraine, Kharkov, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions were shelled.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces stated that the Russian army burns the corpses of its soldiers in a mobile crematorium in the Zaporozhye region to hide losses.
The General Staff of the Ukrainian Army reported 20 downed Shahed drones launched from the eastern shore of the Sea of Azov.
Russian intelligence services announced the detention of members of a criminal group led by Pavel Kharebov (Pasha Osetin), which was involved in kidnapping, extortion and arms trafficking in the Zaporozhye region. According to intelligence services, the group had close ties with volunteers and mobilized from North Ossetia. The head of the republic, Sergei Menyailo, denied this information on the same day, saying that Kharebov has been living in Melitopol since 1992, is a citizen of Ukraine, and there are no connections of his group with the fighters of the Alania and Storm-Ossetia battalions or with those mobilized from North Ossetia revealed.

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