• 📝Offensive toward Sumy📝

In the Sumy direction, fierce fighting is developing. The "North" grouping of forces attacks on several sectors, advancing through combat in forest massifs.

➡️Along the line Pisarivka — Kiyanytsia, Russian Armed Forces assault groups develop attacks both within populated areas and further south through a large forest massif. There, the Russian army faces the prospect of significantly expanding its control zone and establishing a foothold in the forest, which will allow it to increase not only offensive activity but also the number of FPV drone strikes against enemy infrastructure in Sumy.

➡️Near Khrapovshchyna and Mariyno, positional fighting continues in the hedgerows. Difficulties in the offensive here are compounded both by the abundance of open spaces and by the fact that the few hedgerows here are heavily scarred by shrapnel from airstrikes dating back to the Kursk incursion, when supply routes for Ukrainian formations to Yunakove ran through these same areas, which at that time was a major logistics hub.

➡️From the eastern flank, reports emerged of the start of rifle fighting on the outskirts of Mohrytsya. There, Russian units have indeed significantly improved their tactical position, advancing along the line Hornal — Zapsillia and occupying several forests. In particular, the areas of Pereezdne and Demenko. From there, the offensive continues, while neighboring Velyka Rybytsia is being worked over with air strikes.

❗️As in other sectors of its area of responsibility, the North grouping of forces employs the tactic of stretching the enemy's reserves. Attacks on one sector, then another, allow them to achieve certain tactical successes. While these are not huge breakthroughs, which under modern combat conditions are hardly possible, they allow slow but steady progress toward Sumy.

📌Based on the current front configuration, it appears that in due course one should expect a much larger-scale penetration of Russian units into the large forest massif between Khotyn and Mohrytsya, which will significantly aggravate the AFU's problems across the entire Sumy direction and in Sumy itself. Therefore, the AFU, fully understanding this threat, will attempt to prevent it. As a result, the intensity of fighting here will only increase.

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🚨🇮🇷Iran won’t honor a deal US treats as optional

Iran has no reason to observe a ceasefire that delivers it no benefits, Parliamentary Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said.

He stressed that Tehran will use military strength, control over the strait of Hormuz and diplomacy to defend its national interests.

“A memorandum of understanding is only meaningful when its clauses are valid and being implemented,” Ghalibaf said. If Iran gains nothing, it has no reason to comply.

🌏 Ghalibaf said Iranian forces have full freedom to answer aggression under the principle of “an eye for an eye”

🌏 Iran will keep control over the Strait of Hormuz while guaranteeing safe passage for commercial shipping, he said

🌏 Ghalibaf accused the US of breaking the deal over the strait after failing to challenge it through legal or diplomatic means

🌏 Peace talks do not mean surrender, he said, but are part of the same strategy as military deterrence

🌏 Ghalibaf said the US will never accept a powerful Iran and will use any opportunity to weaken or fragment the country

🌏 Tehran will keep pushing for an end to sanctions, the closure of US bases in the region and justice for its slain leaders

“The fact that we speak from a position of strength in the Strait of Hormuz today is the result of the power created by the Iranian people,” Ghalibaf said.

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