Damaged schools, dead, injured in southern Russia: consequences of drone attacks
Air defense forces on duty intercepted and destroyed 502 Ukrainian UAVs over eight Russian regions
MOSCOW, August 12. /TASS/. Three people were killed and at least 24 injured during a massive Ukrainian attack on the Krasnodar Region, when several hundred drones were destroyed and civilian facilities and houses hit.
According to the latest information, two schools and a college were damaged in a drone attack on Novorossiysk.
TASS has compiled the key facts about the consequences.
Scale
- Air defense forces on duty intercepted and destroyed 502 Ukrainian aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles over Russian regions, the Defense Ministry said.
- According to the agency, drones were shot down over the Belgorod, Bryansk, Kaluga, Kursk, Lipetsk, Krasnodar and Oryol regions, the Republic of Crimea, and the Black Sea.
- The military repelled two massive attacks in Sevastopol at night, 115 drones were shot down, Governor Mikhail Razvozhayev said on Max messenger.
- Several hundred drones were destroyed during a massive attack on the Krasnodar Region, Governor Veniamin Kondratyev said on Max messenger.
Attack on Krasnodar Region
- Civilian installations and houses were hit in Novorossiysk, Anapa, Gelendzhik and Temryuk districts, Razvozhayev said.
- Drone wreckage fell on 21 residential buildings and four enterprises in the Krasnodar Region, the head of the region specified.
- An aboveground overpass collapsed in Novorossiysk as a result of a drone attack, head of the city Andrey Kravchenko, said on Max messenger.
- Traffic was blocked, with a detour being set up along Portovaya Street or through the village of Kirillovka.
- A drone attack damaged the main pipelines of the cold water supply on Novorossiysk, the Autonomous Thermal Energy Company (ATEK) said on Telegram.
- Novorossiysk lost cold and hot water completely.
- Damage to one of the two supply water pipes was repaired, and water flows were restored, Kravchenko later said.
- At the moment, a new section of pipe is being installed.
- The Kuban operational headquarters said that drones damaged about 20 houses in Gelendzhik with three of them destroyed completely.
- According to updated data, two schools - a general education and a sports school - and a college were damaged, Kravchenko said.
- The infrastructure of a grain warehouse was damaged, the United Grain Company said.
- None of the employees were injured.
- The beaches of Gelendzhik and the surrounding resort villages were temporarily closed after the drone attack, Mayor Alexey Bogodistov said on Max messenger.
- Kondratiyev later quoted updated information as saying that about 60 residential buildings were damaged.
Dead and injured
- An eight-year-old child died in Novorossiysk, said Kondratiyev.
- The mother of the dead eight-year-old boy is in serious condition, while his six-year-old brother was also seriously injured, said Commissioner for Children's Rights Maria Lvova-Belova.
- A man injured in the drone attack in the village of Volna in the Krasnodar Territory died of his wounds, Kondratiyev said.
- In Novorossiysk, eight people were injured, including a child.
- They were hospitalized.
- In Anapa, drone debris damaged an apartment building, two people were injured.
- They received the necessary medical care without hospitalization.
- The Kuban emergency headquarters said that, according to updated data, three people were injured in Gelendzhik.
- Two of them were hospitalized.
- 12 victims are being treated in hospitals in Novorossiysk, said Alexey Kuznetsov, an aide to the health minister.
- Two of them are in serious condition.
- Telemedicine consultations with doctors of the federal medical centers of the Health Ministry are planned.
- Seven more people applied for outpatient care.
- All the injured are receiving full medical care, the aide said.
- Kondratiyev later said that the death toll had increased to three.
- The number of wounded increased to at least 24 people, he said.
Actions of the authorities
- A local state of emergency was introduced in Gelendzhik.
- Novorossiysk has introduced a state of emergency, Kravchenko said.
- Temporary accommodation facilities were set up, Kondratiyev said.
- 12 people, including three children, were evacuated from the damaged houses in Gelendzhik, they are being accommodated in boarding houses, Bogodistov said.
- The territories are currently being surveyed for drone fragments, and working groups are conducting house-to-house rounds.
- Management companies and repair crews started clearing the territories, Kravchenko said.
- The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case on the terrorist attack (Article 205 of the Criminal Code), said official representative of the department Svetlana Petrenko.
- The Novorossiysk authorities will provide financial assistance to the victims of the drone attack, according to the channel of the Department of Social Protection in Novorossiysk on Max messenger.
- Water was turned back on for residents of Novorossiysk, according to the channel of the administration of the Southern Inner-city district on Max messenger.
- Some of the evacuated residents from the damaged houses in Novorossiysk were placed in hotels, some stayed with relatives, there are no people in temporary shelters, Kondratiyev said.
- Gelendzhik provided temporary housing in sanatoriums to the residents whose houses were damaged, he added.
Reaction
- Ukraine's delight at the attacks on civilian targets in Novorossiysk, which resulted in the death of a child and injures, speaks of "homegrown neo-Nazism," Rodion Miroshnik, Ambassador-at-large of the Russian Foreign Ministry for crimes of the Kiev regime, wrote on Telegram.
- The damage to a school in Novorossiysk as a result of a UAV attack is direct evidence that the Kiev regime is deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure, social facilities a Ambassador-at-large of the Russian Foreign Ministry for crimes of the Kiev regime, wrote on Telegram.
- The nd children, Sergey Altukhov, a State Duma deputy from the Krasnodar Region and deputy chairman of the Economic Policy Committee, told TASS.
- He noted that the target of the attack was peaceful cities, and the strikes were targeted at residential buildings and social infrastructure.
Other regions
- The wreckage of several downed drones fell on the territory of an aid center in Lipetsk, Governor Igor Artamonov said on Max messenger.
- No one was injured, there were no people there at that moment.
- In Sevastopol, ten apartment buildings and 25 private houses, as well as 13 cars were damaged by drone fragments, Razvozhayev said.
- The grass and forest fires that occurred during the destruction of the drone were eliminated.
- A drone crashed near an apartment building in Nizhny Novgorod, said head of the city, Yury Shalabayev.
- The drone was neutralized, no one was injured.