Ukrainian drones attacked the Leningrad region on the night of April 5, I mentioned Head of the region Alexander Drozdenko. According to him, the air defense forces shot down 19 drones.
Drozdenko said a section of the oil pipeline near the port of Primorsk was damaged by drone debris, but no one was injured. “There is safe combustion from a clogged pipe,” he added.
30 drones were also shot down over the industrial zone in the Kastovsky district of the Nizhny Novgorod region. I mentioned Head of the region Gleb Nikitin. It was reported that as a result of falling debris, two facilities of Lukoil-Nizhegorodnefteorgsintez LLC were damaged and a fire broke out there.
In addition, the Novogorkovskaya thermal power plant was damaged, as well as several residential buildings and household plots. Some residents were left without electricity.
The Ukrainian channel “Xylinova” on the “Telegram” application published videos showing a fire, allegedly at an oil refinery in the city of Kstovo.
The Russian Defense Ministry reported that air defense forces intercepted and destroyed 87 Ukrainian drones overnight over the Belgorod, Bryansk, Voronezh, Nizhny Novgorod, Kursk, Oryol, Tambov, Kaluga, Penza, Ulyanovsk, Tver, Leningrad, Mordovia and annexed regions of Crimea.