Overview
- Russia’s Defense Ministry said air defenses downed 76 aerial targets across ten regions in a day, after earlier reporting 43 drones intercepted in an 11-hour span.
- Voronezh officials reported four people injured with one later dying, damage to seven apartment buildings and six private homes, vehicle losses and a contained apartment fire, with an Orthodox gymnasium also damaged and some local drone alerts later lifted.
- Belgorod’s governor said seven districts were attacked by 51 drones in 24 hours, 32 of which were shot down or suppressed, leaving three people injured and multiple properties damaged.
- The Defense Ministry said Russian troops captured Belogorye in Zaporizhzhia after earlier taking Zelenoye, while regional authorities reported power cuts affecting 46,125 subscribers and ongoing repairs to a damaged gas pipeline near Kamenka-Dneprovskaya.
- The ministry claimed up to 200 Ukrainian casualties in the ‘West’ sector, and RIA, citing Russian security sources, reported the withdrawal of UAV crews from Ukraine’s 411th regiment from Sumy region due to losses.