Overview

• Russian authorities called off warship parades in St. Petersburg, Kaliningrad and Vladivostok for security reasons tied to Ukrainian drone threats.
• The Russian Defence Ministry said its air defences intercepted 99 Ukrainian drones overnight across a dozen regions and near St. Petersburg.
• Ukraine’s air defence forces reported shooting down 78 of 83 Shahed drones during one raid and neutralising 309 of 324 attack drones plus two cruise missiles in a separate barrage.
• Falling drone debris prompted Pulkovo airport to suspend dozens of flights and damaged railway power lines in Volgograd, delaying train services.
• President Putin reviewed a scaled-down naval exercise by patrol boat and pledged to expand fleet capabilities even as Ukraine’s long-range drones struck deep-inside sites such as the Signal plant in Stavropol.