Overview
- Russia’s defense ministry and the Krasnodar governor said air defenses downed 66 drones over the region and 59 over the Black Sea, with debris damaging apartment buildings, houses, port facilities and an oil terminal in Novorossiysk; a civilian ship was hit and three crew were injured.
- Belgorod’s operational headquarters reported more than 100 Ukrainian drones targeted the region in the previous day, with strikes across multiple localities and one man injured by an FPV drone that hit a car.
- Regional updates included Volgograd’s governor saying air defenses repelled an attack on energy facilities without outages, Saratov lifting an overnight UAV threat after what the defense ministry said were 45 drones shot down and reporting some infrastructure damage in the city, and Voronezh recording debris damage to a home and a vehicle.
- Russian officials claimed overnight strikes on Ukrainian targets including a military airfield and communications nodes in Kirovohrad region, command posts and UAV bases in Kyiv region, a training site near Bila Tserkva, ammunition depots in Dnipropetrovsk region and MLRS positions and storage sites in Kherson region; explosions were reported in Sumy during air alerts.
- Field reports from Russian units said a 10-person Ukrainian sabotage group was eliminated on the Zaporizhzhia front and a reconnaissance group was destroyed near Stara Huta in Sumy region, alongside localized advances and position captures reported by frontline troops.