Leningrad region ends drone alert after overnight attack

Leningrad region Governor Alexander Drozdenko announced the end of a drone alert on the morning of October 18. He said 145 drones had been shot down over the region overnight.

In an earlier update, the governor reported fires at two houses in Kirovsky district after drone debris fell. The houses are in the Temp and Voskhod-2 gardening communities. Drozdenko said there were no injuries in that incident.

Russia's Defence Ministry separately reported intercepting and destroying 1015 Ukrainian aircraft-type drones over Russian regions during the night.