Overview
- Saratov lifted a five‑hour drone alert after emergency warnings, with the Defense Ministry reporting 15 Ukrainian UAVs shot down over the region overnight.
- In Syzran, Samara region, two people were killed and two injured from a falling UAV as officials said air defenses repelled an attack on fuel‑energy sites and pledged assistance to the victims’ families.
- A targeted strike on a substation in Rylsk, Kursk region, cut power to about 3,000 subscribers, with no casualties reported and restoration work set to begin.
- Belgorod authorities reported 20 drones attacking six districts, leaving two dead and a child seriously wounded, with homes, a social facility and vehicles damaged.
- The Prosecutor General approved an indictment against former Sochi mayor Alexey Kopaygorodsky and his wife over 248 million rubles in alleged bribes and sent the case to the Supreme Court to set venue, as an Ivanovo suspect was remanded to custody, the FSB in Crimea detained a SIM‑box fraud accomplice, and a key witness in the URA.RU bribery case admitted taking a bribe under a cooperation deal.