Overnight into September 19, Dagestan was subjected to a massive drone attack.

On the morning of September 18, Rostov Region Governor Yuri Slyusar reported that air defense forces had shot down over 50 drones overnight across Rostov, Bataysk, Taganrog, and five districts of the region.

The Russian Ministry of Defense reported the interception and destruction of 641 drones overnight on September 17. The drones were reportedly shot down over 20 constituent entities of the Russian Federation, including southern regions.

On the night of September 16, 71 drones were destroyed over Russian territory, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported. The regions targeted included the Kuban, as well as the Rostov and Astrakhan regions.

Overnight into September 15, drones and missiles were launched from Ukraine at several Russian regions, including those in the south.

On September 13, the body of Colonel Khavazhi Amayev—an Ichkerian fighter with the Chechen volunteer Sheikh Mansur Battalion, which fights on Ukraine's side—was found in a Lviv apartment bearing multiple stab wounds. Amayev was better known by the call sign "Zumso."

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg has struck out 879 remaining applications against Russia involving more than 1,500 individuals and organisations. The Memorial Human Rights Centre described the decision as “unprecedented in the practice of the [ECHR], and indeed in the history of international justice as a whole”.

A three-day vigil in memory of the victims of the terrorist attack on School No. 1 ended in Beslan on Wednesday. The commemorations began on September 1, the anniversary of the school siege, and concluded on September 3, marking the anniversary of the operation to free the hostages. The main events were held at the former school building and at the City of Angels memorial cemetery. At 1:05 p.m. — the time when the first explosions tore through the school’s gymnasium 22 years ago — a minute of silence was observed.

Seventeen years ago, on Aug. 10, 2009, Chechen human rights defender Zarema Sadulayeva and her husband, Alik Dzhabrailov, were abducted from the office of their charity in Grozny. Their bodies were found the following day, in what remains one of the most prominent unsolved killings of civil society activists in Chechnya.

Today marks 18 years since the start of the armed conflict between Russia and Georgia, known as the Five-Day War. It was on this day that Russia invaded Georgian territory, marking the beginning of hostilities between the two countries.