Up to 400 Iran-made drones may have been destroyed in the fiery blast, while a military airbase in Southern Russia was also attacked.

The lull came after Russia attacked Ukraine with more than 1,300 Shahed kamikaze drones in September, targeting settlements across the country on a daily basis for an entire month. This daily trend has continued for the first days of October.

The reported executions took place in the region where Ukraine launched a major incursion in August. According to DeepState, a Ukrainian battlefield analysis site close to Ukraine's Defense Ministry, Russian troops shot and killed nine Ukrainian "drone operators and contractors" on Oct. 10 after they had surrendered.

Ukraine's Office of the Prosecutor General has launched criminal investigations into the suspected execution of nine Ukrainian prisoners of war in Russia's Kursk Oblast. Source: Andrii Kostin, Prosecutor General of Ukraine,

Russian forces have executed Ukrainian prisoners of war. This is not an isolated case, reports the American Institute for the Study of War. Russian commanders likely allow, encourage, or directly order the executions of Ukrainian prisoners of war,