Day 1168 of the war began with a new drone attack on Moscow after the one on Monday night. This time, over 100 drones targeted Russian territory, focusing mainly on the capital.
The Mayor of Moscow announced that 19 drones were intercepted by the anti-aircraft defense, and drone debris fell on a boulevard without causing any casualties.
Ten airports in Russia were affected by the aerial attack.
In contrast, Russia launched 20 drones last night over the city of Kharkiv. They hit four neighborhoods, causing 11 injuries. Additionally, a drone attack killed one person in Odessa, while the Dnipropetrovsk region was targeted by nocturnal bombings.
Ukrainians continue to attack in Kursk. Kiev forces attacked a power station in the Russian region, leaving a city near the Ukrainian border without electricity. Russian war bloggers reported that Ukrainian forces attacked the region on Monday, launching rockets and crossing mined fields with special vehicles. This comes after Ukrainians hit a drone command center in Kursk on Sunday.
And Lithuania will invest over a billion euros in the next decade to strengthen defense along its eastern border with Russia and Belarus. The initiative includes border mining and aims to „block and slow down” a possible invasion.
### Evolutions on the Front
– **Aerial Attack in Kharkiv** – Russia launched 20 drones over the city of Kharkiv last night, hitting four neighborhoods within two hours, as reported by Ukrainska Pravda. The city’s largest market caught fire, and several buildings and cars were damaged. 11 people were injured. Additionally, the governor of the Ukrainian Odesa region, Oleh Kiper, announced that one person was killed in a drone attack.
– **Bombardment in Dnipropetrovsk** – Russian troops attacked the Dnipropetrovsk region last night with guided aerial bombs, drones, and artillery, destroying infrastructure, several company buildings, and homes in the Nikopol district and other areas. No injuries were reported. The Russians resumed the attack in the morning, hitting several company buildings in the town of Ilarionove.
– **Short Raid in Kursk** – Ukrainian forces attacked a power station in the Kursk region of western Russia, said the regional governor on Tuesday, after Russian war bloggers reported a new Ukrainian ground incursion in the area, supported by armored vehicles and drones, according to Reuters. Power supply has not yet been restored in Rylsk, a city located 50 km from the Ukrainian border, after Ukrainian forces hit the power station there on Monday evening, damaging two transformers and injuring two teenagers, announced the governor of the Kursk region, Alexander Kinshtein. Authorities evacuated residents from areas near the border as Ukrainian drone attacks over the past day have become „more frequent,” the Kursk region administration conveyed on Telegram Tuesday morning. Russian war bloggers reported that Ukrainian forces attacked the Kursk region on Monday, launching rockets and crossing mined fields with special vehicles.
– **Ukrainians Hit Drone Command Center** – Ukrainian air forces confirmed on Monday that they destroyed a Russian drone control center in the Kursk region, located near the border, causing significant human and material losses, reports The Kyiv Independent. The Ukrainian Army General Staff announced that an airstrike was carried out on Sunday on a Russian drone control center near the village of Tetkino in the Russian Kursk region. As a result of the attack, up to 20 Russian soldiers were reportedly killed, and surveillance and attack military equipment were destroyed. The targeted center housed crews specialized in operating reconnaissance and attack drones, according to the source.
### What’s Happening in Russia
– **Massive Drone Attack on Moscow** – Ukraine launched over 100 drones during the night on Russian territory, particularly targeting Moscow and disrupting the operation of around ten airports, Russian authorities announced three days before Victory Day celebrations, according to The Kyiv Independent. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin announced that 19 drones targeting the Russian capital were intercepted by the anti-aircraft defense. He added that drone debris fell on a major boulevard in southern Moscow, causing no casualties. Russian media broadcast images of a cracked window of a supermarket and the blackened facade of a residential building. In total, Russia was targeted by 105 Ukrainian drones during the night, as stated by the Russian Ministry of Defense in a statement. Governors of the southern regions Voronezh and Penza announced that 18 and 10 Ukrainian drones were intercepted on their territories, without causing casualties.
– **Closed Airports** – Four airports in the Russian capital, Sheremetyevo, Domodedovo, Vnukovo, and Zhukovsky, imposed temporary operating restrictions during the night, with some temporarily closing their runways, according to the Russian civil aviation agency Rosaviatsia. The operation of several other Russian airports had to be temporarily interrupted, especially in several major cities along the Volga, such as Nizhny Novgorod, Samara, Saratov, or Volgograd.
### Other Relevant Information
– **Lithuania to Mine Border with Russia and Belarus** – Lithuania will invest 1.1 billion euros over the next decade to strengthen defense along its eastern border with Russia and Belarus, announced the Lithuanian Ministry of Defense on Monday. Lithuania shares borders with the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad to the southwest and with Belarus to the east and south. The ministry stated that the initiative aims to „block and slow down” a potential invasion. Approximately 800 million euros will be allocated to the purchase and installation of anti-tank mines to deter potential aggression.