Vladimir Putin’s political hero Pyotr Stolypin — a reforming prime minister of the Russian empire - is buried in the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra. That wasn’t enough to protect one of Orthodox Christianity’s most sacred sites from a Russian drone attack.

Separately, local authorities ‌in Russia's Krasnodar region said a ⁠Ukrainian ⁠drone attack on an oil transport facility, confirmed by ​Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, killed one person on a passenger ferry and set an oil terminal ​ablaze.

The newspaper said Russia is losing at a game it created, as Ukrainian forces use tactics and technology to exploit weaknesses in Moscow’s air defenses. The Telegraph noted that Russia launched the era of mass drone warfare when it began sending swarms of Iranian-made Shahed drones at Ukraine.