Overview

• Thousands marched in Tbilisi on local election day, with some breaching the presidential residence grounds before security forces cleared central squares; demonstrators later regrouped near parliament on Rustaveli Avenue.
• Georgia’s interior ministry said 14 law-enforcement officers were injured during the clashes, and the prime minister warned that those who broke the law would face prosecution.
• Russian regional authorities reported intensified attacks from Ukraine, saying Belgorod region was hit by 72 shells and 106 drones in 24 hours with two killed and three injured, including a separate drone strike in Belgorod city that wounded four people.
• In Bryansk region, the governor said a strike on the Pogar bus station wounded a civilian and damaged two minibuses, while Ukraine issued air-raid alerts across multiple oblasts and explosions were reported in Ukrainian-held Zaporizhzhia.
• Analysts and officials described Russia’s fuel shortage as ongoing, linking it to sustained strikes on refining infrastructure, with reports of outages across multiple regions and warnings that supply pressures could persist without a drop in attacks.