Reporter: Factory hit
Attack on Russia – Drones strike 1,200 kilometers behind the border
April 2, 2024, 10:02 a.m
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Ukraine has recently been increasingly targeting Russian infrastructure. Now Russia is reporting drone attacks on industrial facilities in the Tatarstan region. There were injuries, but no serious damage. A Ukrainian reporter reports something different.
According to emergency services, at least seven people were injured in a drone attack on the Russian republic of Tatarstan. The targets were industrial plants in the cities of Yelabuga and Nizhnekamsk, said republican leader Rustam Minnikhanov on his Telegram channel. However, the companies’ “technological process,” as he called it, was not disrupted.
The Ukrainian journalist Illja Ponomarenko, however, writes that a Shahed drone factory, which is more than 1,200 kilometers from the Ukrainian border, was hit and posts a video of an explosion. Russian media reports said three suspected Ukrainian drones had attacked the region.
According to Russian information, two drones exploded close to a student dormitory in Yelabuga. Videos in Telegram channels show people throwing themselves to the ground in the face of the explosions. According to earlier Ukrainian information, Iranian Shahed combat drones are being produced in a special economic zone in Yelabuga. The students of a technical college work in this factory. In the second city attacked, Nizhnekamsk, there are large oil processing plants belonging to the regional oil company Tatneft.
In its defense against Russia’s war of aggression, Ukraine has been systematically attacking Russian oil refineries with long-range combat drones for several weeks. Russia, for its part, used ten Shahed drones against Ukraine during the night, according to the Ukrainian Air Force. Nine of them were shot down, it was said.