
Drones hit the Rostov, Voronezh, Ulyanovsk and Perm Krai regions.
Ukrainian drones carried out attacks on targets in Russia, damaging a refinery in the Rostov Oblast and industrial and civilian facilities, including: in Voronezh, Ulyanovsk and Perm Krai oblasts.
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Drone attacks on Russian industrial and refinery targets are a regular element of the ongoing conflict.
Governor of the Rostov Oblast, Yuri Slusar, announced that the refinery was damaged as a result of the attack. However, he did not provide details on the scale of the damage. The refinery in Novoshakhtinsk is the only such facility in the Rostov Oblast and is located approximately 15 km from the border with Ukraine.
Ukrainian drones hit a Russian refinery
Drones also hit the Ulyanovsk and Voronezh regions, as well as Perm Krai. The governor of the Voronezh region bordering Ukraine, Alexander Gusev, said in a post on Telegram that several non-residential and industrial buildings were damaged.
In turn, the governor of the Ulyanovsk region, Alexei Russki, informed on the same website that "industrial and civil infrastructure" was damaged. Ulyanovsk Oblast is located approximately 650 km from Ukraine. An "industrial facility" was damaged in Perm Krai, as reported by the region's governor, Dmitry Makhonin, on Telegram. Perm Krai is located in the Urals, approximately 1,500 km from the border with Ukraine.

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