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Two people were killed in a Ukrainian drone attack on Russia’s Smolensk region overnight, regional Governor Vasily Anokhin said on Wednesday, according to Anadolu Agency.
Russian air defence forces destroyed 37 drones, Anokhin said in a post on the Russian social media platform Max. Debris hit a multi-storey building in the city of Yartsevo and caused a fire.
Emergency workers evacuated residents, and 10 people were rescued from the area immediately affected by the fire, he said. A temporary accommodation centre was set up for residents, with a decision on whether they can return to their apartments to be made after the building is inspected.
Leningrad region reports 150 drones downed
The overnight attack on the Leningrad region on Nov. 11 was the largest there since the beginning of 2026, according to calculations by Russia’s TASS news agency based on statements by Governor Alexander Drozdenko.
Drozdenko said 150 drones were preliminarily destroyed over the region. The attack caused a fire in the Ust-Luga port area and injured three workers, whose lives were not in danger, he said.
The previous largest reported attack this year took place on Oct. 18, when 145 drones were shot down, TASS said. A total of 144 were downed on June 6, while 113 were destroyed over the region on Nov. 9.
Russia and Ukraine report strikes
In a separate statement, Russia’s Defence Ministry said its forces continued drone strikes against energy infrastructure supporting Ukrainian defence industry enterprises and ships carrying military cargo.
The ministry said overnight strikes hit a 330-kilovolt substation in Kryvyi Rih, in the Dnipropetrovsk region, and two substations, rated at 110 kilovolts and 330 kilovolts, in the villages of Mayaki and Usatovo in the Odesa region.
It also said a dry cargo ship carrying weapons and military equipment for Ukrainian forces was struck in the Black Sea, southwest of Odesa.
Ukraine’s State Emergency Service said six people were injured in a Russian attack in the Zaporizhzhia district and one person was injured in a strike on the city of Kharkiv. Claims by both sides could not be independently verified.
The reports came as a new round of US-mediated peace talks between Russia and Ukraine began in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday.
Moscow and Kyiv last held US-mediated talks earlier this year, in three rounds on Jan. 23-24, Feb. 4-5 and Feb. 17-18. The first two rounds took place in Abu Dhabi and the third in Geneva.
