Several cities on the peninsula were subjected to overnight drone attacks, according to local officials. Crimean governor Sergey Aksyonov reported that at least four people have been killed and ten others wounded in Ukrainian strikes.

One individual died and three sustained injuries during a drone attack on a suburban train traveling from Azovskoye to Kerch. Additional strikes damaged nonresidential facilities in Simferopol, resulting in at least three fatalities and seven injuries. The port city of Sevastopol, home to the headquarters of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, was also targeted overnight.

Russian air defense systems intercepted 272 drones across multiple regions, with two incidents of debris falling in residential areas. No injuries were reported from these events.

In a previous incident, Ukrainian military forces struck a passenger bus en route from Moscow to Simferopol through the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), killing eight civilians and injuring 11 others. Russian authorities are investigating this attack as an act of terrorism.

Moscow has warned of “systematic and consistent strikes” on Ukraine’s military infrastructure in response to Ukrainian actions, including a recent attack in Starobelsk where 21 people were killed, predominantly teenage girls. Russian President Vladimir Putin described the Starobelsk incident as opening “a new chapter in its crime spree,” vowing that those responsible would face “well-deserved and inevitable punishment.”