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Russia Reports Fresh Drone Shootdowns as Regions Confirm Damage

A flurry of separate emergencies stretched from regional response efforts at home to an air crash investigation in Kentucky.

Overview

  • Twenty drones were shot down over Nizhny Novgorod overnight, with debris damaging three private houses and one apartment building but causing no injuries, and city officials pledged assistance to residents.
  • Orel and Rostov regions reported air defenses destroyed incoming UAVs, with several homes and an outbuilding damaged and no casualties, and Voronezh authorities issued a renewed drone-attack alert.
  • Vladimir region authorities said drones struck energy infrastructure near the city, while life-support systems continued operating and crews moved to address the consequences.
  • Conflict-area updates included one civilian killed in shelling of Hola Prystan in the Kherson region and one person injured in a drone attack on Horlivka, according to local officials.
  • U.S. authorities said a UPS MD-11 cargo plane crashed after takeoff near Louisville with at least seven dead, while Russian domestic incidents included a Surgut house fire that killed seven and prompted a negligence case, and a separate Saint Petersburg blaze that killed a woman and two children.