Overview
- Ukrainian forces mounted coordinated long‑range strikes that hit an oil terminal near St. Petersburg and caused a drone to crash at the Peterhof complex, regional officials and Kyiv statements said on Monday.
- The Ukrainian General Staff reported a separate attack on the Omsk oil refinery that sparked a large fire at Russia's biggest refining complex roughly 2,500 kilometres from Ukraine.
- Russian authorities said they shot down hundreds of drones nationwide—giving a figure of about 519—and reported that an S‑400 system intercepted a ballistic missile over Moscow.
- British Ministry of Defence analysis of satellite imagery shows Russia fitting metal 'cage' structures over Kilo‑class submarines at Novorossiysk, an improvised step to guard high‑value vessels from drone strikes.
- Analysts and reports trace the campaign to expanded Ukrainian long‑range drone and missile programs, note deliberate probing of air‑defence gaps, and warn the strikes on energy and port infrastructure could deepen economic strain and civilian impacts such as power outages and Crimean casualties.