Ukraine & Russia

Air defense units shot down 52 Ukrainian UAVs on the Moscow direction, bringing the total number of downed drones to 137, Sergei Sobyanin reported. Drones or debris struck the Moscow Oil Refinery, an apartment building in Zhukovsky, a shopping mall, and residential areas across the Moscow region; one woman sustained a minor shoulder injury.

Explosion reported at the Kapotnya refinery in Moscow, Russia; a silo blast catapulted the building's roof into the air.

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The railway bridge over the North Crimean Canal near the village of Razdolnoye in the Sovietsky District was attacked. A fire broke out, and approximately 20 explosions were heard.

Two cargo station employees were injured in Gukovo, Rostov region, in a drone attack and are hospitalized, the governor said. About 60 UAVs were destroyed over Kamensk-Shakhtinsky and five districts of Rostov region.

About 60 UAVs were destroyed in Rostov Oblast. One person was killed and two were injured, according to Yuri Slyusar.

Ukrainian drones struck Russia's Moscow oil refinery this morning, setting the facility ablaze. Russian air defenses shot down several incoming drones, but multiple drones appear to have penetrated defenses and reached their target.

MoscowSergei Sobyanin reported that 137 Ukrainian drones were destroyed in a massive attack on Moscow and the Moscow region on Thursday morning, with several drones reaching the Moscow Oil Refinery in Kapotnya, causing a fire. Sobyanin also said drone debris fell on the Sadovod shopping center.

Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin reported that a Ukrainian drone strike hit the city's oil refinery. The refinery was previously attacked on June 16.

Russian air defense forces destroyed another 52 unmanned aerial vehicles flying toward Moscow, according to Sergei Sobyanin. The total number of drones shot down has reached 137.

Powerful explosions heard in Kyiv, according to monitoring groups. Earlier, an air alert was declared in many regions of Ukraine, with warnings of a ballistic missile strike threat.

Sheremetyevo Airport services evacuated passengers to safe locations, including from aircraft, the airport's press service said. Passengers are not being allowed from parking lots into terminals and are sheltering until restrictions are lifted.

Drone attack reported on Mykolaiv and Odesa regions in Ukraine, with drones detected over the settlements of Morske, Rybakivka, Dobryanka, Kushuhum, and Dobroslav.

Moscow is reportedly under drone attack, with a refinery burning and thick smoke rising over the city.

Andrei Vorobyov said drone debris struck the roof of the Belaya Dacha shopping center in Lyubertsy, sparking a fire; information on the fire's size and possible casualties is being clarified.

43 drones heading toward Moscow were shot down, Sobyanin reported.

Explosions and air raid sirens sound in Kyiv and several other regions of Ukraine, according to Riskline.

Authorities said a drone struck an apartment building in Russia's Moscow region, but no casualties were reported.

A drone struck an apartment building in Russia's Moscow region, with no casualties reported, according to authorities.

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The Cabinet of Ministers approved a three-year public investment plan for 18 sectors totaling 271 billion hryvnias.

A court has convicted in absentia the so-called 'governor' of Kherson region, Volodymyr Saldo, for ordering the theft of Ukrainian grain from Kherson region and sentenced him to 15 years in prison, the Prosecutor General's Office reported.

A Russian drone strike killed three Ukrainian civilians walking along a road in Nikopol, Ukraine.

Fuel restrictions have affected at least 33 regions of Russia, according to BBC Russian. Problems have emerged even in Moscow and agricultural regions, with major companies like Tatneft and Lukoil imposing limits. The scale is still smaller than the crisis of autumn 2025, when nearly 60 regions were affected.

The Investigative Committee is investigating the circumstances of a helicopter crash landing in the Karachay-Cherkess Republic, according to a report.

Air alert: missiles and drones across multiple Ukrainian regions. Guided bomb launches on Zaporizhzhia, a missile toward Zaporizhzhia, and drones in northern Kherson region and toward Kharkiv.

Three people were killed in a drone attack in Dnipropetrovsk region, authorities say. In an FPV drone attack in Nikopol, three people died, according to the head of the Dnipropetrovsk regional administration, Oleksandr Ganzha. The drone struck people as they walked along a road. A mother and son — an 87-year-old woman and a 51-year-old man — were killed. The identity of the third victim is being established.

A large explosion occurred after a Russian fuel truck was hit by a drone near Melitopol.

A jet-powered drone is moving from the Black Sea towards Chornomorsk in Odesa Oblast.

Diana Shurygina (after marriage — Shlyanina) has been placed under house arrest in a case involving the production and distribution of pornography, the court told Kommersant. Earlier, searches were conducted in the blogger's apartment. Under the charged article, she faces up to six years in prison. Shurygina gained fame in 2017 after appearing on the TV program "Let Them Talk" on Channel One, where she claimed she was raped at a party and accused Sergei Semyonov. He was later sentenced to eight