Ukrainian drones hit Nizhnekamsk petrochemical hub in overnight strikes
Russian officials said Sunday that Nizhnekamsk, an industrial city of about 240,000 in Tatarstan often called the region’s petrochemical capital, came under a massive and prolonged Ukrainian drone attack overnight. Mayor Radmir Belyaev wrote on Telegram that facilities in the industrial zone were damaged and that a residential building was also hit. Regional authorities, quoted by Russian media, said three people were wounded.
Ukrainian and Russian outlets reported a fire at Nizhnekamskneftekhim (NKNK), a major petrochemical complex owned by Sibur. Unverified social-media videos, which AFP said it had not authenticated, showed flames and thick smoke over the site. Nizhnekamsk is home to oil refineries as well as the plant.
In separate overnight strikes on Taganrog, an industrial port in the Rostov-on-Don region that borders Ukraine, an engineer at an electricity substation was killed, regional governor Yuri Slyusar said. Mayor Svetlana Kambulova said a fire at the substation had been extinguished and a local state of emergency declared.
Moscow’s defence ministry said it had shot down 533 Ukrainian drones between Saturday night and Sunday morning over a dozen regions of Russia and annexed Crimea. There was no immediate comment from Kyiv, which says it strikes Russian industrial sites in response to deadly Russian attacks on Ukraine.
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