During the night, areas in Russia were attacked by Ukrainian drones, and the city of Belgorod was also attacked by missiles.
According to the governor of the Belgorod region, Vyacheslav Gladkov, Ukraine launched large-scale attacks on energy facilities, which led to interruptions in the supply of electricity, water and heat. A fire broke out on the territory of one of the facilities. In addition, the apartment building’s windows were damaged. Gladkov said that according to preliminary information, there were no casualties as a result of the attack.
Volgograd Governor Andrei Bokarov said that a high-rise residential building on Vladimir Petrovsky Street, located in the Sovetsky district, was damaged as a result of a Ukrainian drone attack in Volgograd. He added that in the house, the windows of some apartments were broken, but no injuries were reported.
In addition, in the suburbs of Tikhoretsk, Krasnodar Territory, due to falling debris from a drone, a fire broke out on the territory of an oil depot, the Regional Operations Headquarters reported. The size of the fire is unclear. According to preliminary information, there were no injuries. Also in the Tikhoretsky region, drone fragments destroyed two high-voltage lines.
On March 12, in the Tikhoretsky district, after the fall of drone debris, the oil depot was already on fire, but the message from the operational headquarters did not specify whether this was what we were talking about. The Ukrainian Security Service then claimed responsibility for the attack on the infrastructure of the Tikhoretsk oil pumping station, stating that “there is a large oil depot and terminal there, which plays an important role in the logistics of Russian fuel and oil products.”
The Russian Ministry of Defense said that during the night, the air defense forces intercepted 170 Ukrainian drones over the territories of the regions of Tver, Bryansk, Belgorod, Kaluga, Kursk, Smolensk, Tula, Rostov, Volgograd, and Saratov, in addition to the Krasnodar Territory, the Republic of Adygea, and the Crimean Peninsula. In addition, there were at least 20 drones flying in the direction of Moscow.