Overview

• Ukraine’s security service sources told BBC and other outlets that drones set a crude‑processing unit ablaze at Bashneft’s Ufa refinery, while Russia’s defense ministry said air defenses downed five drones over Bashkortostan and offered no strike confirmation; Ufa’s airport was briefly closed for safety.
• Horlivka’s mayor reported a Ukrainian drone attack on a city bus that left a hospital surgeon with traumatic limb amputations, and officials later said four civilians were wounded in the day’s strikes.
• Belgorod’s governor said air defenses shot down rockets over the city and district, with debris causing damage and at least two civilians injured in separate drone incidents across the region.
• Kursk regional authorities reported multiple drone attacks that wounded residents, including a 41‑year‑old man, and earlier in the day a truck driver was killed in a separate strike reported by the governor.
• Regional tallies cited by TASS said 29 medical workers have been killed and more than 140 injured in Donbas, other occupied regions and Russia’s Belgorod region since 2022 as attacks have targeted civilian areas and emergency services.