Elsewhere, the city of Novokuibyshevsk in Russia’s Samara region, a major oil hub on the Volga river that hosts several refineries operated by the state-controlled oil giant Rosneft, was repelling drone attacks, regional governor said.
Authorities urged residents of the Samara city of one million people to seek shelter as public transportation was suspended amid air raid alerts, local media reported.
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Continuing attacks by Ukraine on Russian energy infrastructure has forced Moscow to cut its oil output, the world’s third-largest.
In the southern Rostov region of Russia bordering Ukraine, falling debris from a drone triggered a fire in a fuel tank at a civilian site, and in the central Vladimir region two industrial facilities were on fire, regional governors said on Telegram.
In rare moves, remote Russian oil-producing regions Khanty-Mansiysk, Perm and Tyumen, as well as industrial regions Chelyabinsk and Sverdlovsk in the Ural mountains thousands of kilometres from Ukraine, issued air raid alerts, according to social media posts by local authorities.
Overall, Russia downed 326 Ukrainian drones overnight, of which over a dozen were heading for Moscow, the defence ministry and Moscow’s mayor said on social media posts.
Reuters could not independently verify the reports.
