One of the uncharacteristic attacks targeted the Nizhny Novgorod region, located southeast of Moscow and about 800 kilometers from the Ukrainian border. The Russian Defense Ministry said it shot down three drones over the region. Governor Gleb Nikitin said drone fragments damaged a building and caused a fire, but did not hurt anyone.

During the day from January 28 to 29, Russian troops lost 1,670 soldiers, a multiple-launch rocket system, and 10 tanks in battles with the Ukrainian Defense Forces at the front, according to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

A massive Ukrainian drone attack targeted critical Russian energy infrastructure overnight, with Moscow saying that its air defence systems destroyed a drone attempting to hit a nuclear power