Overview
- Ukrainian drones struck an oil storage site in Armavir, Krasnodar Krai, igniting a blaze that rescuers contained to about 700 square meters with no official casualties reported.
- The facility hit was preliminarily identified as the storage‑transshipment base of the Southern Oil Company, according to regional reports.
- Russia’s Defence Ministry said air defences downed 72 UAVs across multiple regions, including Astrakhan, annexed Crimea, Rostov, Belgorod and Krasnodar.
- Belgorod’s governor reported a heavy rocket attack that damaged energy infrastructure and caused electricity, water and heat outages in the city and district.
- In occupied Zaporizhzhia, Moscow‑appointed official Yevgeny Balitsky said a drone strike on an apartment building in Vasylivka injured at least ten people and caused unspecified fatalities.