Overview

• Russian border regions reported heavy fire and UAV attacks, with Belgorod authorities citing 72 shells and 106 drones in 24 hours that left two dead, several injured and a separate UAV strike in Belgorod city that wounded four at a commercial site.
• Bryansk officials said a strike hit Pogar’s bus station, wounding a civilian and damaging vehicles.
• Ukraine issued widespread air-raid alerts across Kyiv and multiple oblasts into the night, and Ukrainian media later reported explosions in Lviv and Stryi with further alerts in Mykolaiv and Zhytomyr.
• The Wall Street Journal reported that Russia’s Rubicon drone center has been disrupting Ukrainian logistics by targeting supply routes and destroying convoys.
• Independent and Russian reports described worsening gasoline shortages and rising prices in Russia, with estimates of about 38% of refining capacity idle, while Crimea tightened fuel sales limits.