Cécile Kohler and Jacques Paris are thought to have been the last French people held in Iran.

The President has decorated Airborne Assault Forces soldiers fighting on the Pokrovsk front with the Orders of Bohdan Khmelnytskyi and For Courage (2nd and 3rd Class).

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has stated that the European Union should establish a strategic partnership with Ukraine without granting it membership in the bloc.

Ukrainian Ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets has appealed to Italy’s Ombudsman Marino Fardelli, requesting that the basic rights of Ukrainian citizen Serhii Kuznietsov, arrested on suspicion of involvement in the Nord Stream sabotage case, be guaranteed.

Ukraine is holding negotiations with Azerbaijan on signing a long-term gas supply contract.

The Ukrainian research icebreaker Noosfera has arrived at the Polish Antarctic station Arctowski on King George Island.

The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has confirmed strikes on a petrochemical plant in Bashkortostan, an oil refinery in Russia’s Nizhny Novgorod region, and a fuel and lubricants depot in temporarily occupied Kherson region.

As of today, there is no encirclement or blockade of towns in the Pokrovsk–Myrnohrad agglomeration by Russian invaders. None of the units of Ukraine’s Defense Forces are encircled.

Fierce battles are taking place in the Donetsk town that Russia has been trying to occupy for over a year.

Defense forces used a ground-based robotic complex (GRC) to evacuate a wounded soldier from a settlement under enemy control.