Overview
- Mayor Sergey Sobyanin reported a drone headed for Moscow was shot down by air defenses, with emergency services working at the debris site.
- In a six-hour span on January 9, the Defense Ministry said eight fixed-wing Ukrainian drones were destroyed over Lipetsk (five), Belgorod (one), Voronezh (one) and Kursk (one) regions.
- Overnight the same day, air-defense units reported downing five drones over Bryansk (two), Belgorod (one), Rostov (one) and Oryol (one) regions.
- For the week, the ministry reported 1,327 fixed-wing UAVs shot down, along with 21 guided aerial bombs, 14 US-made HIMARS rockets and five Neptun missiles, and cited a cumulative 108,206 UAVs destroyed since the war began.
- The ministry also highlighted tactical actions, saying VDV operators used FPV strike drones to disrupt a Ukrainian rotation on the Dnipro’s right bank in Kherson region and that a group led by Captain Evgeny Kulikov destroyed trucks, an ammunition depot, infantry and a UAV control point.