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Russian regions came under a massive drone attack overnight on November 15. Damage was reported to industrial facilities, electrical substations, residential buildings and transport infrastructure.<\/p>\n

According to Rostov region Governor<\/a> Yury Slyusar<\/b>, the chief engineer of an electrical substation was killed in Taganrog. The most serious damage was reported in Taganrog and Neklinovsky district.<\/p>\n

Three men and a woman were injured when drone debris struck cars on a highway and at a petrol station. Another man was injured in the morning in the village of Troitskoye, Neklinovsky district, where drone debris fell on the grounds of a production workshop. All five were hospitalized.<\/p>\n

An electrical substation serving the railway was damaged in Taganrog. Power lines between Taganrog-Passazhirsky and Mikhailovka stations were knocked out, and train services were suspended. Another electrical substation in the Shubin neighbourhood caught fire following the attack.<\/p>\n

In Neklinovsky district, the road surface of a bridge over railway tracks on the R-280 highway was damaged. Traffic was blocked at the 64th kilometre, with vehicles diverted through Taganrog and the village of Pokrovskoye. Several cars were also damaged. A private house was damaged in Taganrog.<\/p>\n

According to Slyusar, around 50 drones were destroyed overnight over Rostov-on-Don, Taganrog and seven districts of the region.<\/p>\n

Nizhnekamsk in Tatarstan also came under a massive attack. The city’s mayor, Radmir Belyaev<\/b>, reported<\/a> damage to facilities in the industrial zone and an apartment building. Residents were evacuated.<\/p>\n

According to Tatarstan Health Minister Almir Abashev<\/b>, three people were injured. They sustained injuries of moderate severity.<\/p>\n

OSINT analysts at Astra identified<\/a> the Nizhnekamskneftekhim petrochemical complex, part of SIBUR Holding, as the target of the attack. The facility is one of Europe’s largest petrochemical complexes and produces synthetic rubber, plastics and ethylene.<\/p>\n

Following the attack, Tatenergo temporarily suspended hot water supplies in Nizhnekamsk until 8 p.m.<\/p>\n

Belgorod region also experienced numerous drone attacks and shelling over the past 24 hours. According to the regional operational headquarters<\/a>, two men were injured in the village of Otradnoye in Belgorod district and in the city of Valuyki. Both were hospitalized.<\/p>\n

A woman in Shebekino sought medical assistance after suffering an acoustic injury when a drone detonated on November 13. The attacks damaged residential buildings, cars, power lines and infrastructure facilities. A private house caught fire overnight in the village of Rzhevka. The fire was extinguished.<\/p>\n

The Ukrainian monitoring channel Exilenova+ reported<\/a> an attack on the Akhtubinsk military airfield in Astrakhan region. According to the channel, at least 30 explosions were heard. It claimed that the targets included airfield infrastructure, military aircraft parking areas, ammunition depots and other facilities.<\/p>\n

The Russian Defence Ministry said<\/a> that 533 drones had been destroyed over 14 Russian regions, annexed Crimea and the waters of the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea between 8 p.m. on November 14 and 8 a.m. on November 15.<\/p>\n

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Russian regions came under a massive drone attack overnight on November 15. Damage was reported to industrial facilities, electrical substations, residential buildings and transport infrastructure. According to Rostov region Governor Yury Slyusar, the chief engineer of an electrical substation was killed in Taganrog. The most serious damage was reported in Taganrog and Neklinovsky district. Three […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":603758,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/6af985c5c7245.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Drones Attack Nizhnekamskneftekhim And Akhtubinsk Military Airfield In Russia"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143090],"tags":[143121,143122],"class_list":["post-603757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-politics","tag-rossijsko-ukrainskaja-vojna","tag-rossija"],"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=603757"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":603773,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603757\/revisions\/603773"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}