Ukrainian drones attacked facilities in Tatarstan, Astrakhan and Rostov regions

Attacks on the night of November 15

On the night of November 15, Ukrainian drones struck several facilities on Russian territory. Kun.uz reports this, citing Russian and Ukrainian sources. In Tatarstan, Nizhnekamsk came under attack: according to the city's mayor Radmir Belyaev, facilities in an industrial zone and a multi-story residential building were damaged, and residents of the building were evacuated. Later, Belyaev clarified that six people were injured in the attack on the industrial zone, one of them — a Rosgvardia employee — was hospitalized.

Petrochemicals and military facilities

Ukrainian monitoring channels reported that drones attacked the Nizhnekamskneftekhim plant — the world's largest producer of synthetic rubbers, owned by the Sibur holding. The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine stated in its report that on the night of November 15, Ukrainian forces struck three enterprises on Russian territory: besides Nizhnekamskneftekhim, the primary oil refining unit of Nizhnekamsk's TAIF-NK was damaged, as well as the Monolith plant in the town of Trubchevsk in Bryansk region, which specializes in the production of aircraft, including helicopters. The General Staff explained the attack on the Sibur plant by the fact that certain types of synthetic rubber serve as the basis for the binder of solid rocket propellant used in Iskander ballistic missile launches.

Taganrog: a fatality and a state of emergency

That same night, drones reached Taganrog. Two electrical substations were damaged, one of which served the railway. According to the governor of Rostov region, Yuriy Slyusar, the chief engineer of one of the substations was killed, and five more people were wounded: two — a man and a woman — on a highway and at a gas station from falling 'drone debris', and another person on the grounds of a production workshop in the village of Troitskoye in the Neklinovsky district. A state of emergency has been declared in Taganrog, train traffic has been halted, and a section of the R-280 highway has been closed. According to Ukrainian channels, the Melentyev road bridge across the Mius River, connecting Nikolayevka and Andreyevo-Melentyevo, was damaged.

The Akhtubinsk airfield

In addition, the Akhtubinsk airfield, located between Astrakhan and Volgograd, came under attack overnight. It hosts the 929th Flight Test Center of the Ministry of Defense named after V. P. Chkalov. Ukrainian monitoring channels reported a series of strikes on the airfield and, according to their information, the detonation of munitions or an air defense system on its grounds. The publication contains no independent confirmation of these reports.