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A Ukrainian drone overnight hit an industrial facility in Russia’s Volga river region of Chuvashia, some 1,300 km (800 miles) from the border with Ukraine.

Regional Governor Oleg Nikolayev in a statement on the Telegram messaging on Sunday, said the strike, one of the deepest yet into Russia by a Ukrainian drone, caused no casualties.

According to him, Chuvashia Emergency services were at the scene at the Kombinat Burevestnik facility in the region’s capital, Cheboksaray.


He did not provide further details about the strike and the extent of any damage was unclear.

Meanwhile, Russian authorities said earlier that air defence units had destroyed 88 Ukrainian drones overnight, with no injuries or other damage reported.

According to the Russia’s Defence Ministry, no fewer than 52 of the drones were destroyed over the border Belgorod region, while 13 were over the Lipetsk region and nine were over the Rostov region, both in Russia’s southwest.

The ministry said the rest of the Ukrainian drones were downed over Russia’s Voronezh, Astrakhan, Krasnodar, Ryazan and Kursk regions.

In the same vein, Russia’s aviation watchdog Rosaviatsia said on Telegram that the airports of Astrakhan, Nizhny Novgorod and Kazan had been closed for several hours overnight to ensure air safety.

Ukrainian Lieutenant Andriy Kovalenko, who heads the Center for Countering Disinformation, part of the National Security and Defense Council that Ukrainian drones were involved, the Novolipetsk Metallurgical Plant in Lipetsk was under attack.

https://dailypost.ng/2025/03/09/ukrainian-drone-hits-industrial-plant-deep-inside-russia/