Overview
- The Defense Ministry reported 83 Ukrainian fixed‑wing drones were shot down overnight across several regions, including 64 over Bryansk, nine over Kaluga, five over Smolensk, two over Crimea and the Moscow region, and one over Tver.
- Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin said air defenses downed a drone heading toward the capital, and regional officials reported additional interceptions over Smolensk and Leningrad, with no casualties reported in the Smolensk incident.
- The Southern grouping’s press center said Russian drone units destroyed 32 Ukrainian dugouts along with ground robots, command posts and UAV antennas on the Kramatorsk, Seversk and Konstantinovka axes.
- The Defense Ministry reported a TOC‑1A strike that destroyed a Ukrainian strongpoint on the Krasnoarmeysk axis, Russian security sources said a combat group of Ukraine’s 3rd brigade was eliminated in Kharkiv region, and a Su‑34 strike was reported against a six‑person reconnaissance group in Sumy.
- The FSB and Investigative Committee said four minors in Lipetsk confessed to planning sabotage allegedly guided by an SBU curator, and Roscosmos announced a Proton‑M launch delay to fix an upper‑stage mismatch.