Overview
- A Ukrainian drone attack on Nizhnekamsk in Tatarstan killed 13 people, including a child, and injured dozens, Russian regional officials said, prompting a regional mourning and emergency medical deployments.
- Russian investigators opened a criminal terrorism case over the Nizhnekamsk strike and described it as a war crime, while Moscow blamed Kyiv for hitting residential and industrial facilities.
- Ukraine's military and President Volodymyr Zelenskyy publicly said Kyiv struck an oil refinery at Nizhnekamsk and hit naval and port infrastructure in Novorossiysk, including air‑defense positions and piers.
- Russian authorities reported that their air defenses destroyed hundreds of Ukrainian drones in multiple overnight salvos and that strikes in Krasnodar and Voronezh regions caused further civilian deaths and property damage.
- The exchanges show a renewed phase of cross‑border long‑range drone and missile attacks that are stretching air‑defense and emergency services and raising legal and humanitarian tensions between the two sides.