MOSCOW — A Ukrainian drone attack killed four industrial workers in Volgograd and left two others hospitalized overnight, regional Gov. Andrey Bocharov said Friday.
The regional administration reported fires at an enterprise in the city’s southern industrial zone and on nearby land after drone debris fell. It did not identify the enterprise.
Russia’s Defense Ministry said air defenses destroyed 1,198 Ukrainian fixed-wing drones between 8 p.m. Thursday and 8 a.m. Friday, Moscow time, according to the Russian state news agency TASS.
The ministry reported interceptions over 17 Russian regions, including the Moscow region, as well as Crimea and the Black Sea. The interception total, casualty figures and damage reports could not be independently verified. The supplied TASS report included no Ukrainian response.
Homes Damaged Near Volgograd
In the settlement of Svetly Yar, the regional administration reported damage to windows and balconies at three five-story apartment buildings, along with windows at a youth center.
A power outage temporarily interrupted cold-water service in Svetly Yar and Raygorod, the Svetloyarsky district administration said.
Russia’s Investigative Committee opened a criminal case under the country’s terrorism law, spokesperson Svetlana Petrenko told TASS. Investigators were examining who ordered and carried out the attack, she said.
The regional prosecutor’s office was overseeing efforts to protect the rights of those affected.
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Nine Apartment Buildings Damaged in Rostov-on-Don
In Rostov-on-Don, Mayor Alexander Skryabin said nine apartment buildings had been damaged, raising an earlier count of five reported by Rostov Gov. Yury Slyusar. Authorities declared a state of emergency around the damaged sites.
Debris broke windows at a five-story building in the city’s Oktyabrsky district, and three cars caught fire, according to Slyusar. Residents were evacuated, and authorities opened temporary accommodation.
Slyusar later reported that a man had been injured in the overnight attack on Rostov-on-Don and taken to a hospital, according to Interfax.
Heating went out in 114 buildings in the district, Skryabin said. He expected service to resume soon in 79. Another 35 buildings lost heat because an overhead pipeline was damaged. Repair crews were waiting for emergency services to finish at the scene.
In the Aksaysky district, a warehouse burned across an area of about 1,500 square meters, Slyusar reported. A smaller fire at a production facility in Rostov-on-Don’s Sovetsky district covered 20 square meters before crews put it out. The governor reported no casualties at either site.
Slyusar put the number of damaged private homes in the Azovsky district at five. In Koluzayevo, four houses had damage to their roofs, doors and windows. Debris also damaged a gas pipe at one house. No one was hurt there, and the pipe damage did not cause a fire.
Moscow Reports Hundreds of Incoming Drones
Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin said 467 drones flew toward the Moscow region from 6 p.m. Thursday through 8 a.m. Friday. Writing on Max, he said air defenses destroyed most far from the city, while 144 were intercepted on the approaches to Moscow.
That count covered 14 hours. The Defense Ministry’s overnight tally covered 12, beginning at 8 p.m. Thursday, so the two figures cannot be added together.
Other governors posted local counts on Max. Kaluga’s Vladislav Shapsha reported 133 drones brought down, while Slyusar reported more than 120 over Rostov-on-Don and 10 districts across the Rostov region.
Voronezh Gov. Alexander Gusev said air defenses intercepted 32 drones over the city and five districts of the region. In Tula, Gov. Dmitry Milyayev put the overnight count at 31.
Two Hurt in Belgorod
In Belgorod’s Pochayevo settlement, a drone struck a car and wounded a man and a woman, the regional emergency response center said. Both suffered shrapnel wounds and burns and were being treated at the Grayvoronsky Central District Hospital.
The center listed damage elsewhere in the region: windows broken at two apartment buildings and two private houses in the Shebekinsky district, five cars damaged there, and another car damaged in the Belgorod district.
Gusev also reported that debris struck an outbuilding and a car in the Voronezh region. No casualties had been reported when he issued his preliminary account.