At least one person was injured and several homes damaged in a Russian drone attack on Ukraine's Kyiv region, Governor Ruslan Kravchenko said. Ukraine's Air Force said it shot down 53 of the 56 Russian drones that targeted the country's central, northern and southern regions. Air defence units destroyed nearly 20 drones that were heading towards Kyiv itself, the military said. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, speaking in his nightly video address, said there had been 100 battles over the past 24 hours on the eastern front with the heaviest fighting in the Pokrovsk and Kurakhove sectors. Russia ordered the evacuation of settlements close to the Ukrainian border in the Kursk region and said it had retaken two villages – Uspenovka and Borki – Ukraine captured last month in a surprise cross-border incursion.