The Russian Ministry of Defense issued a notice on the 16th saying that from the evening of the 15th to the early morning of the 16th, the Russian military launched drone attacks on Ukrainian military industrial enterprises, ports, and ships serving the Ukrainian military, including an enterprise in Kyiv that produces special vehicles for the Ukrainian military, and a dry cargo ship carrying military supplies for the Ukrainian army at Chornomorsk Port in Odesa region. In addition, Russian air defense forces have intercepted and shot down 71 Ukrainian drones in Bryansk, Kaluga, Oryol, Rostov, and Astrakhan regions, as well as over the Black Sea. Also, according to a report by Ukraine's Interfax news agency on the 16th, Ganza, director of the Udnepropetrovsk military administration, said on social media on the same day that a Russian drone hit a passenger bus in the Nikopol region, killing 5 people and injuring at least 7 others.

The Russian Ministry of Defense issued a notice on the 16th saying that from the evening of the 15th to the early morning of the 16th, the Russian military launched drone attacks on Ukrainian military industrial enterprises, ports, and ships serving the Ukrainian military, including an enterprise in Kyiv that produces special vehicles for the Ukrainian military, and a dry cargo ship carrying military supplies for the Ukrainian army at Chornomorsk Port in Odesa region. In addition, Russian air defense forces have intercepted and shot down 71 Ukrainian drones in Bryansk, Kaluga, Oryol, Rostov, and Astrakhan regions, as well as over the Black Sea. Also, according to a report by Ukraine's Interfax news agency on the 16th, Ganza, director of the Udnepropetrovsk military administration, said on social media on the same day that a Russian drone hit a passenger bus in the Nikopol region, killing 5 people and injuring at least 7 others.