At night in the Volgograd region of the Russian Federation, attack drones attacked a huge warehouse of shells and ammunition. Explosions were also heard in the Krasnodar region, Voronezh, Rostov, and Kursk regions. There is damage to a warehouse near Kotluban.
Drone attack on Kotluban — news
Updated at 13:44.According to sources in Ukrainian intelligence, the destruction of the arsenal in Kotluban is a joint operation of the Main Intelligence Directorate, Special Operations Forces, the Security Service of Ukraine, the Foreign Intelligence Service and the Armed Forces of Ukraine. For the attack, our military launched 120 Ukrainian-made kamikaze attack drones. The distance to the target is more than 600 kilometers.
As a result of the hit, storage sites for ammunition and missile weapons were damaged, which will lead to a shortage of ammunition in the supply of units of the occupation army of the Russian Federation, the source in intelligence emphasized.
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In the Volgograd region of the Russian Federation, in the village of Kotluban, explosions thundered at night — drones attacked the ammunition arsenal of the Main Directorate of Missile and Artillery Armament of the Russian Ministry of Defense.
As reported by the head of the Center for Countering Disinformation of the National Security and Defense Council Andrey Kovalenko, part of the Iranian ballistics, as well as launchers for them, were stored at the arsenal in Kotluban.
According to unconfirmed information, an Iranian Fath-360 launcher was destroyed, and 45 tons of ammunition detonated. It is reported that 90% of the warehouse was destroyed.
Volgograd Region Governor Andrei Bocharov said that all drones that attacked the region at night were intercepted and neutralized. According to him, there were no casualties or damage to civilian or military facilities.
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The Kotluban military unit is located 43 km north of the city of Volgograd. The area there is steppe.
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Drone attack on Yeysk
In Yeysk at night near the military explosions thundered in the town. Presumably, drones struck the region. This was reported by the ASTRA publication, citing local residents.
Thus, users in the Yeysk and Krasnodar Krai groups reported explosions near the military town, where there is also an airfield of the Russian Navy, the 859th Center for Combat Use and Retraining of Naval Aviation Flight Personnel and the 190th Training Mixed Aviation Regiment of the Navy are based.
Explosions in the Rostov Region
Residents in Tsimlyansk, Volgodonsk and other populated areas of the Rostov Region also heard explosions at night. Local publics report a fire in the village of Samarskoye in the Azovsky District.
Rostov Region Governor Vasily Golubev said that four drones were destroyed by air defense forces in the Azovsky District. According to him, dry grass caught fire after the debris of one of the drones fell. Vasily Golubev assures that there were no casualties or damage.
In turn, the Russian Ministry of Defense stated that their air defense forces allegedly shot down 125 Ukrainian attack drones at night.
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