Russian drones swooped down, damaging at least one tank from each brigade. The crew of the Leopard 2A6 was observed bailing out of the burning vehicle. Firing back, the Ukrainian 80th Air Assault Brigade knocked out at least two Russian BMD fighting vehicles, apparently from the 83rd Air Assault Brigade.

"The situation is getting worse every day," one Ukrainian soldier told the BBC. "We don’t see the goal. Our land is not here." The soldiers, exhausted from defending the Kursk region against the Russian offensive,

Special Operations Forces (SOF) of the Ukrainian Armed Forces conducted another series of successful raids on enemy positions in the Kursk region. As a result, several Russian servicemen were eliminated,