Russian forces struck energy infrastructure in Ukraine's Donetsk and Kharkiv oblasts, the Energy Ministry reported.

Ukraine's security and defense agencies damaged a Russian Project 1171 (Tapir) large landing ship docked at a naval base in Novorossiysk port, preliminary data shows, a source told hromadske.

Russian commanders ordered invading troops to use civilians as human shields during an assault on the Donetsk Oblast city of Pokrovsk, intercepted radio communications show, Ukraine's Security Service and Donetsk regional prosecutors reported.

Ukrainian defenders struck an oil terminal at the seaport of Novorossiysk in Russia's Krasnodar Krai overnight into Friday, a source in the security forces told hromadske. The port ranks as Russia's second-largest oil export center and a vital logistics node for petroleum products via the Black Sea.

Rustem Umerov, Secretary of Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council, has arrived in the Turkish city of Istanbul to unblock the prisoner swap process, he announced on Facebook.