Overview

• Russian regional authorities activated drone danger warnings in areas including Tula, Voronezh, Ivanovo, Lipetsk, Mordovia, Novorossiysk and Stavropol, with several alerts later canceled after overnight interceptions.
• Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin said air defenses downed a drone headed toward the capital, and officials in Tula and Ryazan reported no casualties or damage after eight and four drones, respectively, were destroyed overnight.
• The Defense Ministry reported shootdowns across multiple locales, citing 40 over Crimea, 34 over Kursk, 30 over Belgorod, 20 over Nizhny Novgorod and 17 over Voronezh, along with 62 over the Black Sea and five over the Azov Sea.
• Russian units described ongoing offensive drone use, with the 'Center' grouping claiming strikes on Ukrainian personnel and fortifications and the 'Dnepr' grouping asserting the destruction of a US‑made Bradley and more than 50 M777 howitzers over time.
• Russian media highlighted new organizational moves, including 'night hunter' counter‑drone teams in a volunteer brigade and reports of a foreign mercenary UAV battalion called 'Flash' within Ukraine's forces, based on social media postings.