A Ukrainian drone strike has killed at least 13 people and injured 75 others in Nizhnekamsk, a city in the Tatarstan region deep inside Russia, local authorities said Monday, marking the deadliest attack to hit the country in more than two years.
Details of the Attack
Nizhnekamsk lies more than 600 miles east of Moscow and is the site of the major, technologically advanced Taneco oil refinery, which Ukraine’s armed forces said they had targeted. The strike comes as both Russia and Ukraine intensify their aerial attacks against one another, while the frontlines of the war largely stagnate.
A child was among those killed in Nizhnekamsk, according to the Russian Investigative Committee, while 21 people have been hospitalized, the region’s press service said. And another four people were killed over the last 24 hours in the Russian region of Belgorod, which borders Ukraine, the region’s acting governor Alexandr Shuvayev said Monday.
As Ukraine’s long-range drone technology has improved in recent months, it has demonstrated a newfound ability to frequently strike infrastructure deep inside Russia, like oil refineries, tankers, power substations and broader energy infrastructure as well as warehouses belonging to Russia’s largest online retailer, Wildberries.
Russia’s daily aerial assaults on Ukraine still vastly outnumber Kyiv’s retaliatory attacks. In just one night earlier this month, Russian missiles killed at least 17 people and injured dozens of others in the Kyiv region.
Original reporting: KCCI Des Moines — read the source article.
