Russia says 1 killed in Ukrainian drone attacks on Taganrog and Nizhnekamsk

In Taganrog, in the Rostov region, the chief engineer of an electrical substation was killed in an attack, Governor Yury Slyusar said on 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 was injured in the village of Troitskoye, where debris struck a production workshop, he said.

Two electrical substations in Taganrog were damaged, including one that caught fire, he added.

Train services were suspended after damage to a substation supplying the railway, while 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, without specifying the number of casualties.

An apartment building and facilities in an industrial zone were damaged, prompting the evacuation of residents, he said.

Belyaev did not identify the industrial facility targeted in the attack. 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 between 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 due to the conditions of war.