Overview

• Parades were called off in St. Petersburg, Kaliningrad and Vladivostok for the first time since their reinstatement in 2017
• Russia’s defence ministry reported intercepting and downing 291 Ukrainian fixed-wing drones overnight
• Operations at St. Petersburg’s Pulkovo airport were disrupted for five hours, delaying or diverting dozens of flights
• Falling drone fragments injured a woman in the Lomonosov region and damaged private property
• President Putin inspected the conclusion of the four-day ‘July Storm’ drills at the Admiralty, which mobilised more than 150 warships and 15,000 personnel