Drones Carried Out One Of The Largest Attacks On Russia Since The Start Of The War In Ukraine

Dozens of regions were hit hard.

Russia has recorded one of the most large-scale attacks by Ukrainian drones since the start of the war it has been waging against Ukraine.

On the night of Friday, November 13, over the Astrakhan, Belgorod, Bryansk, Vladimir, Volgograd, Voronezh, Kaluga, Kursk, Lipetsk, Oryol, Rostov, Ryazan, Saratov, Smolensk, Tver, and Tula regions, the Moscow region, the annexed Crimea, and the Black Sea waters, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported, according to “Deutsche Welle”.

Only once since the start of the war has the Russian ministry claimed to have destroyed an even larger number of drones in a single night—1,214 UAVs on the night of October 29.

Oil refinery on fire in Volgograd

Volgograd was one of the targets of the new attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces. A massive fire broke out at the Volgograd oil refinery (LUKOIL-Volgogradneftepererabotka LLC), according to Ukrainian monitoring channels and the publication Astra. According to Exilenova+ estimates, this is at least the 13th attack on this facility since the start of the war.

Drones attacked Rostov-on-Don and the surrounding region

The governor of the Rostov Region, Yuri Slyusar, reported a drone attack on the region. Fires broke out “as a result of falling UAV debris” in the regional capital and the Aksai District, he wrote. A man was killed in Rostov-on-Don.

Nine apartment buildings were damaged as a result of the attack, according to the city’s mayor, Alexander Skryabin. A state of emergency was declared in the surrounding area, he added. The mayor also reported that more than 100 homes were left without heat due to the attack.

In the Azov District of the region, five private homes were damaged. Additionally, a “industrial facility” caught fire in the Sovetsky District of Rostov-on-Don, Slyusar wrote, without naming the affected enterprise.

“In total, last night in the Rostov Region, more than 120 UAVs were destroyed in Rostov-on-Don and 10 districts of the region: Matveevo-Kurgan, Bokovo, Kamensk, Tarasovo, Millerovo, Tatsino, Ust-Donetsk, Azov, Sholokhov, and Chertkov,” he added.

Meanwhile, Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin reported that 467 UAVs were flying toward the Moscow region. “Most of them were destroyed by the Ministry of Defense’s air defense system at long ranges, and 144 drones were neutralized as they approached Moscow,” the official wrote.

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