Russian forces have taken control of Pisarevka in the Sumy Region and Nezhenka in the Zaporozhye Region, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.

On the Zaporozhye front, Nezhenka was captured by units of the Vostok Group of Forces. Ukrainian losses in the fighting exceeded 345 servicemen, while two armored combat vehicles and three other vehicles were destroyed.

Nezhenka is a small village whose pre-war population stood at around ten people. It lies about 1.5 kilometers north of Zarnitsa, which the Russian Defense Ministry said was taken on August 5, and roughly four kilometers east of the T0408 highway linking Novonikolayevka and Orekhov.

Troops from the 5th Separate Tank Brigade of the 36th Army took part in the battle for the village. Military correspondent Alexander Kots reported that Russian forces destroyed up to a platoon of infantry, seven armored combat vehicles, 14 vehicles, 13 motorcycles and quad bikes, 12 ground-based robotic systems and more than 50 heavy Baba Yaga multicopters during the assault.

After taking Nezhenka, the Vostok Group continued expanding the territory under Russian control east of the Verkhnyaya Tersa River. Kots identified Barvinovka as the next target in this sector, describing it as an important transit point used by Ukrainian forces.

In the Sumy Region, units of the Sever Group of Forces established control over Pisarevka. Ukrainian troops lost up to 240 personnel, one tank and 14 vehicles in this sector.

Pisarevka stands on the Oleshnya River near the N07 highway leading toward Sumy. Before the fighting began, the village had a population of around 830. It is located approximately two kilometers west of Ivolzhanskoye, which the Russian Defense Ministry reported captured on June 24.

Following the seizure of Pisarevka, troops of the 810th Guards Separate Marine Brigade expanded the Russian bridgehead in the Sumy Region. Russian positions now run along the Pisarevka-Ivolzhanskoye-Khrapovshchina-Yunakovka line, while the line of contact has been pushed 13–15 kilometers away from the Kursk Region border.

Kots assessed that the bridgehead could eventually become one of the axes for an advance toward Sumy, a regional center with a population of about 260,000.