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UPS Crash Toll Rises to 13 in Louisville as Russia Reports Night Drone Attacks and Damage

The black-box review now drives the Louisville probe, with Russian authorities separately managing outages and damage from night-time drone activity.

Overview

  • Louisville officials said fatalities from the UPS Flight 2976 MD-11 crash have reached 13, and investigators are analyzing a recovered cockpit recorder containing about 63 hours of data.
  • An NTSB official said the search continues for people still unaccounted for, while the probe proceeds without hampering recovery operations.
  • Russia’s Defense Ministry reported 15 Ukrainian drones destroyed between 20:00 and 23:00 Moscow time, including 12 over Crimea, two over the Black Sea and one over the Rostov region.
  • Belgorod’s governor reported serious damage to the city’s power and heat systems after attacks, leaving more than 20,000 residents without electricity and damaging an infrastructure site, vehicles and garages.
  • Voronezh authorities said several UAVs were suppressed by electronic warfare, a fire at a utility facility was extinguished, temporary power and heating fluctuations were resolved, and no injuries were reported; Krasnodar Krai issued a drone hazard warning and Rostov region air defenses downed drones without casualties.