Overview

• Russia’s defence ministry said it intercepted about 209 Ukrainian drones overnight, with shootdowns reported over Kursk, Belgorod and as far east as Nizhny Novgorod, including the industrial zone of Dzerzhinsk.
• Regional authorities in Tyumen reported three drones detected and neutralized at an industrial site in the city, the first such incident there since 2022, with local media citing damage to refinery equipment.
• IAEA experts stationed at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant said they heard incoming and outgoing artillery and recorded two shells landing roughly 1.25 km from the site’s perimeter.
• Ukraine’s air force reported Russia launched 183 drones overnight into Wednesday and said 154 were downed, while energy firm DTEK reported a thermal power plant strike that injured two workers and caused serious damage.
• Officials on both sides reported civilian deaths, including four people killed in a drone strike in Russian‑occupied Kherson, three killed in Russia’s Belgorod region by a missile, and two killed in Ukrainian‑held Kherson.