Ukrainian drones reportedly attacked the Yartsevsky District in the Smolensk region, according to a statement by regional governor Vasily Anokhin on his Telegram channel. Anokhin detailed that the UAVs were suppressed by air defense systems, but debris from one fell onto an oil depot. "This resulted in a fuel spill and the ignition of lubricants," Anokhin noted.

The Russian Ministry of Defense reported that on the night of December 31, Russian air defenses destroyed 68 drones. This included 25 …

Russian media claims that Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked an oil pipeline in Russia's Bryansk region with a "Peklo" rocket drone. Ukraine has not commented on the incident yet.

According to Russian media outlet Mash, a rocket strike on the "Druzhba" oil pipeline near Bryansk, Russia, occurred this morning.

Russian journalists suggest that the oil pipeline near the city of Novozybkov, close to Bryansk, was targeted by the Ukrainian Armed Forces with a "Peklo" rocket drone.

Mash reports that …

In a critical development, Russian President Vladimir Putin made a second call in two days to Azerbaijani leader Ilham Aliyev to discuss the tragic crash of an Azerbaijan Airlines passenger jet. Following Aliyev's strong statement accusing Russia of obscuring the true cause of the crash on the Baku to Grozny flight, Putin urgently called Aliyev. As reported by the Azerbaijani president's press service, the Kremlin initiated the conversation. The discussion reportedly focused on the ongoing …