Ukrainian Drones Strike Russia's Nizhnekamsk Overnight: Petrochemical and Refinery Sites Damaged, Several Injured
The city of Nizhnekamsk in Russia's Republic of Tatarstan came under a massive drone attack in the early hours of November 15. Mayor Radmir Belyaev, quoted by TASS, said the prolonged attack damaged industrial-zone facilities and an apartment building, that people were injured and were receiving medical care, that all residents of the damaged building had been evacuated to two temporary accommodation centres, and that no one living in the building had been killed. Tatarstan's health ministry said three people were injured.
Ukraine's General Staff said its forces had struck the Nizhnekamskneftekhim petrochemical complex and the TAIF-NK oil refinery in Nizhnekamsk that night, and that the extent of the damage was still being clarified. Nizhnekamsk, a city of about 240,000, is one of Russia's petrochemical capitals; Nizhnekamskneftekhim, part of the Sibur group, is among Russia's largest producers of plastics and synthetic rubber.
Russia's defence ministry said air defences shot down or intercepted 533 Ukrainian fixed-wing drones over 14 regions and Crimea between Saturday night and Sunday morning. The same night, a power substation in Taganrog, Rostov Oblast, was hit; Russian officials said the substation's chief engineer was killed.
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(Source: TASS)
Source: TASS
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Photo: 图：下卡姆斯克石化公司厂区资料图（摄于2003年）。照片：Mikhail Kozlovsky 摄，CC BY 4.0，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Photo: File photo of the Nizhnekamskneftekhim plant (2003). Photo by Mikhail Kozlovsky, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
