Russia says it intercepted 209 drones as Ukraine strikes Ukraine carried out large-scale drone attack o

Ukraine carried out a large-scale drone attack on Russia for the second consecutive night, with Moscow reporting on Tuesday that its forces had shot down 209 drones. According to the Russian Defence Ministry, most of the drones were intercepted over the border regions of Kursk and Belgorod.

The strikes hit an unidentified industry enterprise in the Nizhny Novgorod region, Governor Gleb Nikitin said.

Russian authorities did not report any injuries or deaths on Tuesday.

On Monday, Russia announced it had intercepted 251 drones in one of Kyiv’s largest retaliatory attacks. The strikes killed two people and caused widespread power outages, leaving about 1,000 residents in Belgorod still without electricity, local authorities said.

Kyiv has pledged to intensify strikes on Russian territory, targeting oil infrastructure in what it calls a legitimate response to Moscow’s daily assaults on Ukrainian cities and energy networks, which have often left millions without heating or power.

Ukraine alleges foreign parts in Russian weapons

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Monday that investigators had found tens of thousands of foreign-made components in Russian drones and missiles used during the massive attack on Ukraine in the early hours of October 5.

“During the massive combined strike on Ukraine on the night of October 5, Russia used 549 weapon systems containing 102,785 foreign-made components,” Zelensky said on social media. He added that Russia fired nearly 500 drones and over 50 missiles that night, killing five people, including victims in the western Lviv region — and damaging parts of Ukraine’s energy infrastructure.

Zelensky said the recovered components, such as converters, sensors and microcomputers, originated from companies in the United States, China, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, Germany, Switzerland, Japan, the Republic of Korea, and the Netherlands. He warned that Kyiv was preparing new sanctions against those involved.

The British government said it was taking Ukraine’s allegations “incredibly seriously”, adding that violations of sanctions could lead to “large financial penalties or criminal prosecution.”