Russian air defenses intercepted and destroyed 430 Ukrainian fixed-wing drones during a massive overnight attack on November 9. Several regions came under fire, with the Leningrad region among the hardest hit. A total of 113 UAVs were shot down there, while residential buildings sustained damage and drone impacts were reported in an industrial area of Kirishi.

According to the Russian Defense Ministry, air defense units engaged Ukrainian drones over the Belgorod, Bryansk, Voronezh, Kaluga, Kursk, Leningrad, Lipetsk, Oryol, Pskov, Smolensk, Tambov, Tver and Tula regions. UAVs were also intercepted over the Moscow region and Crimea.

Leningrad Region Governor Alexander Drozdenko provided details of the damage caused by the raid. In Vsevolozhsk, fragments of a downed drone landed on the roof of a residential apartment building. In Kirishi, Ukrainian UAVs struck an industrial area, while debris from another drone entered an apartment in a residential building. The family living there had to be evacuated.

The overnight assault followed another wave of Ukrainian drone attacks the previous day. The Russian Defense Ministry reported that air defense crews had destroyed 50 UAVs between 8:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. Moscow time on November 8. The interceptions took place over the Belgorod, Bryansk, Kursk and Rostov regions, as well as Crimea.

The Bryansk region also faced extensive drone activity. Governor Egor Kovalchuk reported that Russian forces had shot down 192 Ukrainian fixed-wing UAVs over the region during the previous 24 hours.

Meanwhile, Ukrainian attacks in the Kursk region claimed the life of a civilian. According to an operational update from Governor Alexander Khinshtein, Russian forces destroyed 57 drones of various types between 9:00 a.m. on November 8 and 9:00 a.m. on November 9. During the same period, Ukrainian troops carried out one artillery attack on evacuated areas and used drones to drop explosive devices on eight occasions. A 40-year-old man was killed in one of the attacks in the village of Pervomayskoye, Ponyrovsky District.

The Belgorod region also continued to face Ukrainian strikes. Governor Alexander Shuvaev reported 139 attacks over the previous 24 hours, including nine artillery bombardments and 15 instances in which drones dropped explosive devices. Russian air defense crews and other units involved in repelling the attacks managed to shoot down or suppress 98 UAVs.

Shuvaev also reported two deaths resulting from earlier Ukrainian attacks. One man was killed overnight on November 7 when a Ukrainian drone struck an apartment building in Belgorod. Another man died in hospital from severe injuries sustained during a UAV attack on the village of Nizhnyaya Serebryanka in Rovensky District on October 31.