Overview

• During the night of August 9–10, Russia’s air defenses destroyed 121 Ukrainian drones over regions from Kursk and Bryansk to Crimea, the Defense Ministry said.
• Ukraine intercepted 16 Russian kamikaze drones and downed one Iskander-K cruise missile from a 47-drone and two-missile raid, though strikes near Dnipro injured three civilians.
• Ukraine’s Security Service reported its kamikaze Shahed drones struck a logistics warehouse in Kizil-Yul, Tatarstan, triggering an explosion and fire about 1,300 kilometers from the Ukrainian border.
• Russian drone attacks killed two occupants of a private car in occupied Zaporizhzhia and wounded six civilians, including a 15-year-old, in Kharkiv’s Chuhuiv district.
• President Zelenski has refused territorial concessions and demanded Ukraine’s participation in any peace talks as President Trump and President Putin head to Alaska on August 15.