Ukrainian drones struck Nizhnekamsk in Russia's Tatarstan region overnight, damaging industrial facilities and injuring three people, while a separate attack killed an electrical substation engineer in Taganrog.
Ukrainian drones struck the central Russian city of Nizhnekamsk overnight, damaging industrial facilities and sparking a fire at a major petrochemical complex, injuring three people, according to Russian officials and media reports.
Nizhnekamsk Mayor Radmir Belyaev said on Telegram that the city was the target of a "massive and prolonged attack by enemy drones" early Sunday morning, and that facilities in the industrial zone were damaged. A residential building was also damaged, he added.
Russian media reported that the strikes caused a fire at the Nizhnekamskneftekhim (NKNK) petrochemical complex, owned by Russian company Sibur. Videos circulating on social networks showed flames and thick smoke rising above the industrial site, though AFP said it had not authenticated the footage.
Nizhnekamsk, a city of about 240,000 people, is often dubbed the "petrochemical capital" of Tatarstan and is home to oil refineries and a major petrochemical plant.
Separate overnight strikes on Taganrog, an industrial port city in the Rostov-on-Don region bordering Ukraine, killed an electricity substation engineer, according to regional governor Yuri Slyusar. Taganrog Mayor Svetlana Kambulova said a fire at a substation had been put out and a local state of emergency had been declared.
Russia's defence ministry said in a statement that it had shot down 533 Ukrainian drones between Saturday night and Sunday morning over a dozen regions of Russia and annexed Crimea. There was no immediate response from Kyiv, which says it targets Russian industrial facilities in response to deadly Russian strikes on its own territory.
The strikes hit one of Russia's largest petrochemical facilities and energy infrastructure in southern Russia, underscoring the continued reach of Ukrainian long-range drone operations deep inside Russian territory.
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