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One person was killed and at least six others were injured overnight in Ukrainian drone attacks on the Russian cities of Taganrog and Nizhnekamsk, Russian officials said Sunday, according to Anadolu Agency.
In Taganrog, in the Rostov region, an electrical substation’s chief engineer was killed, Governor Yury Slyusar said on the Russian social media platform “Max”.
Five other people were injured in the region. Four were hurt when drone debris fell on their cars on a highway and at a gas station, while another person was injured in the village of Troitskoye, where debris struck a production workshop, Slyusar said.
Two electrical substations in Taganrog were damaged, one of which caught fire. Train services were suspended after damage to a substation supplying the railway, and a bridge on the R-280 highway in the Neklinovsky district was also closed, Slyusar said.
In Nizhnekamsk, in Russia’s Tatarstan region, several people were injured, but no deaths were reported, Mayor Radmir Belyaev said. He did not specify the number of casualties.
An apartment building and facilities in an industrial zone were damaged, prompting the evacuation of residents, Belyaev said.
Belyaev did not identify the industrial facility targeted. Russian news outlets reported that it was “Nizhnekamskneftekhim”, one of Europe’s largest petrochemical complexes and part of “Sibur Holding”. The report could not be independently verified.
Russia’s Defense Ministry said air defenses intercepted and destroyed 533 Ukrainian drones across nearly 20 Russian regions overnight.
Separately, Ukraine’s State Emergency Service reported six people injured in Russian airstrikes on Zaporizhzhia and another six in an overnight attack on Chornomorsk in the Odesa region.
Neither side’s claims could be independently verified because of the conditions of war.
