Ukraine drone strike kills 12, injures 39 others in central Russia

A Ukrainian drone attack on Nizhnekamsk in Russia’s Tatarstan region has killed at least 12 people and injured 39 others, in one of the deadliest single attacks of the more than four-year Russia-Ukraine war.

The regional press service confirmed the casualties in a statement on Monday, saying, “According to the latest information, 12 people have been killed and 39 wounded as a result of the drone attack.”

Nizhnekamsk is located more than 1,000 kilometres (620 miles) from the Ukrainian border.

Tatarstan is a major energy-producing region and is home to several important oil refineries and industrial facilities that have increasingly been targeted by Ukrainian drone strikes.

Kyiv has carried out attacks on Russian energy infrastructure as part of its retaliatory campaign against Moscow during the ongoing war.

Unverified footage on social media showed a large black smoke cloud billowing at the site of an oil facility near the industrial city of Nizhnekamsk.

Both sides have significantly escalated their long-range attacks this year, causing a spike in civilian deaths, according to the United Nations.

Near the front line in Ukraine, a Russian artillery strike killed five people in a village in the northeastern Kharkiv region, local Ukrainian officials said.

“On August 10, Russian forces carried out a massive artillery strike on the residential area of the village of Bugaivka in the Chuguiv district. Various houses were destroyed as a result of the enemy attack. Five people were killed,” regional prosecutor’s office said in a statement on Telegram.

It posted a picture of a house reduced to rubble by the attack.

Russia’s defence ministry said it shot down 456 Ukrainian drones fired overnight. It never states how many reached their targets.

The Tatarstan region had earlier reported a “massive” Ukrainian drone attack.

Ukraine’s air force said Russia fired 126 drones in its overnight attack.

A woman was also killed in a Ukrainian attack on the Russian border region of Belgorod, and a man was killed in a Russian drone strike on a taxi in the frontline Kherson region, officials there said.

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