🇷🇺🇺🇦The Russian Defense Ministry reports a massive drone attack tonight - 158 drones were shot down.

46 UAVs were shot down over the Kursk region, 34 over the Bryansk region, 28 over the Voronezh region, 14 over the Belgorod region, eight over the Ryazan region, two over Moscow, seven over the Moscow region, five over the Kaluga region, four over the Lipetsk region, three over the Tula region, two drones each over the Tambov and Smolensk regions, and one each over the Oryol, Tver and Ivanovo regions.

As previously reported, one of the drones' targets was the Moscow Oil Refinery. There is a fire at the plant, but its scale is said to be small. The plant is being extinguished from helicopters.

Drones also hit the Konakovskaya State District Power Plant in the Tver Region, and were reportedly shot down as they approached the Kashira Hydroelectric Power Plant (Moscow Region).

🇷🇺🇺🇦UAV operators from the Babstov brigade conduct mine clearance by dropping mines, providing room for our motorized riflemen to maneuver.

🇷🇺🇺🇦During the Ukrainian offensive in the Kursk region, Russia was able to take more settlements in Donbas, — Bild

According to the publication, while the Ukrainian army was able to take control of only one small Russian town of Sudzha with an official population of 6,000 people, the Russian army captured five Ukrainian settlements with a total population of more than 53,000 residents in August alone - including Novogrodovka, Krasnogorovka, Druzhba, Severnoye and New York.

"Ukraine is paying a high price in Donbas for its successes near Kursk. Russia's pressure on Pokrovsk and its evacuation calls into question the strategy of the Ukrainian leadership," said military expert Niko Lange.

Lange sees a direct link between the "successes" of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Russia and the increasingly threatening situation in Donbas.

"Berlin, Paris, London and Washington have not revised their bans on the use of delivered weapons against Russian airfields and other strategic targets in Russia," — the publication reminds.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️A Ukrainian source reported that Russian forces are storming Ugledar head-on at this moment.

This comes as the elite Ukrainian 72nd mechanised brigade was reportedly withdrawn from the town after over 2 years of defence.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Fire at Moscow Oil Refinery Localized — Emergencies Ministry

There is no threat to people or the functioning of the plant.

🇷🇺🇺🇦Explosion in Kharkov

🇷🇺🇺🇦Footage of heavy artillery and air strikes on Ukrainian Armed Forces positions in Ugledar .

🇷🇺🇺🇦The moment of one of the arrivals and the consequences in Kharkov.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Kharkov

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Arrival in Kharkov

🇷🇺⚡️Russia will change its nuclear doctrine based on an analysis of recent conflicts and the West's actions in connection with a special military operation - Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov

🇺🇦🇷🇺❗️Nine people, including two children, were injured in the Ukrainian Armed Forces attack on the Belgorod region - authorities

🇷🇺🇺🇦In the spring of 2025, Russia may launch an offensive on the Dnepropetrovsk region, The Times writes.

Neither side in the conflict expects a battlefield resolution this year, but both are playing for a "big push" in the ground war in 2025, the publication says.

The Times also writes that Pokrovsk and Chasov Yar are needed by Russia as springboards for a large-scale offensive on other regions of Ukraine.