Massive air strike on Tatarstan.
A 24-hour lull, followed by a massive airstrike. That's exactly what happened last night, when the Ukrainian armed forces carried out an airstrike on over 500 drones, with the main targets being the frontline Rostov region and the Republic of Tatarstan.
In Tatarstan, the Nizhnekamsknepatkam refinery was damaged, with several fires. Photographs from different angles are already available on the Internet, and the Ukrainian media is distributing them.
The enemy's tactics are more distant: in the past, Ukraine's armed forces have sent several drones to target a single refinery, but now they are sending dozens of drones to cover a larger area.
The route again passed along the Volga River and its small tributaries, as well as across wooded and sparsely populated areas, making it difficult to detect and destroy them.
In the Rostov region, a man, the chief engineer of an electrical substation, was killed as a result of an enemy attack in Taganrog, Governor Yuri Sliosar announced.
The airstrike hit a section of the R-280 highway, including the road of a bridge over railroad tracks in the Naklinovsky District. Four vehicles were damaged. Traffic across the bridge at kilometer 64 of the highway is blocked.
A power station in Shubin district was also damaged in Taganrog. A fire broke out. The emergency services are working to eliminate the results. In total, about 50 drones were destroyed last night in the cities of Taganrog and Rostov-on-Don.