Overview

• Regional officials said air defenses and electronic warfare downed multiple UAVs overnight in the Rostov and Voronezh regions, with no casualties reported.
• Authorities reported energy-facility damage, including a fire from drone debris at the Afipsky refinery in Krasnodar and a strike on a pump station near Konar in Chuvashia that paused operations, with no injuries announced.
• Russia’s Defense Ministry said the “Southern” grouping used aerial reconnaissance, artillery and FPV drones to destroy Ukrainian UAV control points, an ammunition depot and temporary positions near the Kleban-Byk reservoir on the Konstantinovskoye axis.
• Daily loss figures published by the ministry put Ukrainian personnel losses at up to 1,430 in 24 hours, a number not independently verified.
• Ukrainian outlets and officials reported explosions and air-raid alerts in Zhytomyr, Poltava and Chernihiv, and Vinnytsia authorities said critical infrastructure was hit and fires contained without injuries.