Overview
- Russian officials said a Sunday overnight barrage involved more than 500 Ukrainian drones across multiple regions, with 556 intercepted and at least four people killed, including three near Moscow and one in Belgorod.
- Local authorities reported a woman killed in Khimki and two men in Pogorelki, 12 people injured near the gate of a Moscow oil refinery, damage to apartment blocks, and drone debris on the grounds of Sheremetyevo airport.
- The Embassy of India in Moscow said one Indian national was among the dead and three others were injured in the Moscow-region strikes.
- Ukraine’s air force said Russia launched 287 attack drones into Ukrainian territory the same night, most of which were shot down or jammed, with injuries reported in the Dnipropetrovsk region and other areas.
- President Volodymyr Zelensky said the long-range strikes were justified retaliation and claimed Ukrainian drones reached targets over 500 kilometers inside Russia, in a contest that is increasingly focusing on air defenses and energy infrastructure; some official claims could not be independently verified.