Massive Ukrainian drone strike hits 10 Russian regions over 24 hours, damages major oil refinery

Russian air defenses repelled a drone attack over Kursk earlier today, according to a report by regional governor Roman Starovoit. Taganrog Mayor Andrei Fateyev also announced a UAV attack on the city. Rostov and Kursk are the latest Russian regions to have come under Ukrainian drone attacks over the past 24 hours.

“Attention! State Emergency Situations Committee Taganrog reports a UAV attack. If possible, go down to the lower floors, to the basement. Find a place without windows, sit on the floor,” Fateyev wrote.

Later in the day, Vasily Golubev, the Governor of the Rostov Region, reported that multiple aerial targets were destroyed outside the city. “In Taganrog, the UAV attack was announced to be repelled. Aerial targets have been destroyed outside the city. The consequences on the ground are being determined by operational services,” he said.

Rostov is the tenth region in Russia to have been attacked by Ukrainian drones on March 12. Earlier, Russia’s Defense Ministry and regional governors reported that the Moscow, Leningrad, Belgorod, Bryansk, Orel, Tula, Kursk regions, as well as Nizhny Novgorod and Voronezh, were attacked by drones at night and in the morning.

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said that a drone flying toward the city was shot down in the Ramensky District southeast of the city. According to preliminary data, there were no casualties or damage. Authorities in other regions have also reported the absence of casualties.