One killed, eight others injured in Volgograd Region: aftermath of Ukrainian UAV attack

Emergencies July 31, 11:05

In the southern Rostov Region, one person was injured in a Ukrainian UAV attack on the town of Gukovo

MOSCOW, July 31. /TASS/. Air defense forces intercepted and destroyed 371 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) over Russian regions, the Black and Azov Seas overnight, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported.

Rescuers found a dead woman while clearing debris on the site of a residential building in Volgograd after a Ukrainian overnight UAV attack on the southern city. According to specified data, eight persons were hospitalized with injuries. The attack caused fire at an industrial enterprise of the fuel and energy sector in the south of Volgograd and at warehouses in the city’s Dzerzhinsky district.

In the southern Rostov Region, one person was injured in a Ukrainian UAV attack on the town of Gukovo. Also, a child was injured after UAV debris fell on a private house in the farmstead Rogozhkino in the Azovsky district.

TASS has put together key facts about the Ukrainian drone attack.

Scope

- Alert air defense systems intercepted and destroyed 371 Ukrainian fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles over Russian regions, the Black and Azov Seas overnight, the ministry reported.

- The drones were shot down over the Belgorod, Bryansk, Voronezh, Volgograd, Kursk, Rostov, Tula and Krasnodar Regions, the Republic of Dagestan, the Republic of Crimea, the Republic of Tatarstan and over the waters of the Azov and Black Seas, the ministry said.

Rostov Region

- One person was injured in the Rostov Region as a result of the Ukrainian army’s strikes, Governor Yury Slyusar said on his Telegram channel.

- Medics are rendering assistance to the injured woman.

- An apartment building was damaged in a Ukrainian UAV strike, the governor said.

- The inter-floor slabs of the apartment building collapsed, he specified.

- Residents were evacuated to a temporary accommodation center.

- Falling UAV debris damaged private houses and a store building in Bataisk.

- Falling UAV debris caused a forest fire in Rostov-on-Don.

- The fire was extinguished.

- A child was injured after UAV debris fell on a private house in the farmstead Rogozhkino in the Azovsky district, the regional governor said later.

- Bomb disposal experts are also on their way to the site of UAV debris found in Bataisk while there are no casualties or serious damage on the ground in the city, he added.

- The Bataisk administration will survey damaged buildings and estimate the damage caused.

Volgograd Region

- Rescuers found a dead woman while clearing debris on the site of a residential building in Volgograd after the Ukrainian UAV attack last night. According to specified data, eight persons were hospitalized with injuries, Volgograd Region Governor Andrey Bocharov said on his Max channel.

- In addition, civilian infrastructure and an apartment building in the Traktorozavodskoy district of Volgograd and a private household in the city’s Krasnoarmeisky district sustained damage.

- As UAVs hit facilities during the night, fire emerged at an industrial enterprise of the fuel and energy sector in the south of Volgograd and at warehouses in the city’s Dzerzhinsky district.

- Emergency services are working at the sites and the efforts to extinguish the blazes continue.

- Windows of eight apartment buildings in the Traktorozavodskoy district of Volgograd sustained damage in the Ukrainian UAV attack, the city’s administration said on its Telegram channel.

- The municipality of the Dzerzhinsky district dispatched additional water trucks to eliminate the fires at the warehouses, it said.

- Emergency response teams are carrying out work to specify the damage and eliminate the consequences.

- A temporary accommodation center was opened for local residents on the premises of school No. 1 for the time of the work of emergency services.

- Large-capacity buses were provided to transport residents to the temporary accommodation center where sleeping seats and hot meals were arranged.

- Currently, there are no residents at the temporary accommodation center.

- The Volgograd Region Prosecutor’s Office is exercising control of the observance of the affected persons’ rights.

- The regional Prosecutor’s Office has also organized interaction with all the agencies to promptly provide assistance to local residents.

- A commission of the Volgograd administration has begun to survey the apartment buildings where windows were damaged after the overnight Ukrainian UAV attack, the press office of the city’s administration reported.

Tatarstan

- A Ukrainian UAV attempted to attack a logistics center in the Zelenodolsky district of Tatarstan. The attack was successfully repelled and there are no casualties or damage, District Head Mikhail Afanasyev reported.

- Air defenses destroyed a Ukrainian UAV in the sky over Nizhnekamsk in Tatarstan. There are no casualties or damage. Mayor Radmir Belyayev said on his Telegram channel.

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