At least 13 killed in Ukrainian drone attack on Russia’s Nizhnekamsk

What the report says

At least 13 people, including a child, were killed and 39 others wounded in a Ukrainian drone attack on Nizhnekamsk in Russia’s Tatarstan region, according to regional authorities and Russia’s Investigative Committee. Al Jazeera reported that the strike hit an area about 800km east of Moscow and that Russian officials said civilian infrastructure and industrial sites were affected. Regional head Rustam Minnikhanov condemned the attack, and authorities in Tatarstan declared a day of mourning.

Ukraine’s military said it had carried out an attack on an oil facility in the region, while Russian authorities described the incident as a “terrorist attack” and said a criminal case had been opened. The Russian defence ministry claimed it intercepted more than 450 Ukrainian drones overnight, reflecting the scale of the wider exchange of strikes between the two countries. Nizhnekamsk is significant because it hosts one of Russia’s major oil refineries, making it part of the country’s fuel and export network.

The report also noted that similar attacks had taken place in the same industrial zone in June and July. More broadly, the strikes fit into Ukraine’s long-range drone campaign against Russian energy infrastructure, which Kyiv says is intended to disrupt Russia’s war economy. In a separate development, Al Jazeera reported that at least five people were killed in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region in Russian shelling of a residential area.