Overview
- Regional air-defense units reported shooting down 21 aircraft-type UAVs over Alexeyevsky, Gubkinsky and Starooskolsky districts, and 10 over Chernyansky, with further interceptions elsewhere.
- A man was injured when an FPV drone hit a passenger car in Oktyabrsky near Belgorod, sustaining barotrauma, chest burns and facial shrapnel wounds, and was to be transferred to the regional hospital as the vehicle burned.
- Grayvoron experienced concentrated incidents with 12 munitions fired, 35 drone strikes including five downed, and a separate explosive dropped from a UAV that damaged a service vehicle.
- Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said drones struck ten populated localities, citing attacks in Nechaevka, Nikolaevka, Nikolskoe, Chaiki, Yasnye Zori, Tserkovny, Berezovka and Gruzskoe.
- Authorities reported damage to apartments, private homes, vehicles, garages, a social facility, an administrative building and equipment at a commercial site across multiple districts.