MOSCOW, February 11. /TASS/. Russian air defense forces intercepted and destroyed 108 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles over Russian regions overnight, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.
A drone attack hit an apartment block in the Volgograd Region. The crash of drones ignited a fire at an industrial plant, and their debris fell on the premises of a kindergarten. Drone wreckage was found in the urban-type settlement of Plastunovskaya in the Dinskoy District of the Krasnodar Region. Air defense forces repelled a massive drone attack across 12 cities and districts of the Rostov Region. A power line support structure was damaged in the region's Tarasovsky District.
TASS has compiled key information on the aftermath.
Scale
- Between 11:00 p.m. Moscow Time on February 10 (8:00 p.m. GMT) and 7:00 a.m. Moscow Time on February 11 (4:00 a.m. GMT), duty air defense systems intercepted and shot down 108 Ukrainian fixed-wing drones over Russian regions, the Defense Ministry said.
- The Defense Ministry reported that 49 drones were downed over the Volgograd Region, 29 over the Rostov Region, seven each over the Saratov Region and the Black Sea waters, three over the Astrakhan Region, two each over the Bryansk Region, the Republic of Kalmykia, and the Republic of Tatarstan, and one each over the Belgorod, Voronezh, Kursk, and Tula regions, the waters of the Sea of Azov, the Republic of Crimea, and the Republic of North Ossetia.
Consequences
- A multi-story residential building was damaged due to a drone attack in the Volgograd Region, Governor Andrey Bocharov said.
- The crash of drones ignited a fire on the territory of an industrial plant.
- Additionally, drone debris fell on the grounds of a kindergarten.
- According to preliminary information, there were no casualties, the governor said.
- Emergency services are conducting operations to locate and dispose of possible drone debris.
- Drone wreckage was found in the urban-type settlement of Plastunovskaya, with no casualties, the regional operational headquarters reported on its Telegram channel.
- A massive drone attack was repelled in 12 cities and districts of the Rostov Region with no casualties, Governor Vasily Golubev said.
- A piece of drone wreckage was discovered near the bridge over the Bolshaya Kamenka River in the city of Donetsk, and specialists were dispatched to the site, he added.
- In the Tarasovsky District of the Rostov Region, a damaged power line support structure left three private houses without electricity.
- In the Millerovsky District, the facade of a private house and a shed were damaged.
- The Rostov Nuclear Power Plant in the city of Volgodonsk is operating in normal mode following a nighttime drone attack on the city, the plant's press service reported.
- They clarified that the radiation levels at the nuclear station and in its surrounding area remain normal and do not exceed natural background values.
- Classes in all educational institutions in Kazan, the capital of the Republic of Tatarstan, were canceled due to a received drone attack threat, the city's education department reported on its Telegram channel.