Interfax reports Kazakhstan is considering using the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) and Baku-Supsa oil pipelines, and trans-Caspian transport routes via Azerbaijan, as additional crude export routes to respond to a disruption of Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) operations.

On the evening of the 9th the Russian Defence Ministry said Moscow time between 0800 and 2000 its air-defence forces intercepted and shot down 285 Ukrainian drones over multiple western regions, including Belgorod, Kursk, Bryansk and the Moscow region. The ministry said Russian forces also struck a thermal power plant and seven substations inside Ukraine and used drones to hit gas-field infrastructure in Sumy region.

Financial Times reports multiple Wall Street firms are partnering with NVIDIA (NVDA.O) on a $500 billion AI financing initiative.