Overview

• Belgorod region recorded 197 Ukrainian drones over 24 hours, with 137 intercepted or suppressed and six people seeking medical care, the governor said.
• A rocket strike on Belgorod killed one person and injured another, causing power outages and traffic signal disruptions, according to regional authorities.
• Voronezh activated an immediate UAV‑strike threat alert as sirens sounded, while Novorossiysk lifted a six‑hour UAV‑danger regime with no threat to residents, local officials said.
• In the Nizhny Novgorod region, air defenses downed about 20 drones near Dzerzhinsk, one person was hurt by debris and small fires were extinguished, and regional officials rejected claims of a chemical release as false.
• Ukraine issued air‑raid warnings for Kyiv and multiple oblasts, Ukrainian media reported blasts in Sumy and Chernihiv, and Russia’s Defense Ministry reported large overnight UAV interceptions and claimed heavy Ukrainian losses in several sectors.