UAVs and missiles target Taganrog and Bryansk in Russia, possibly threatening aircraft factory and oil refinery
Photo: video screenshot
On the night of December 11, drones and missiles targeted the cities of Taganrog in the Rostov region and Bryansk in the Russian Federation. Several explosions were heard in Bryansk, resulting in a fire that broke out in the city. Earlier, the Transneft oil depot had also caught on fire. In Taganrog, explosions were reported near the Beriev Aviation Research and Technical Complex.
The head of the Rostov region, Yuriy Slyusar, and the head of the Bryansk region, Alexander Bogomaz, reported this.
Bryansk
According to locals, there was a strike drone attack reported. The Russians shared footage of the aftermath of another explosion online. They complained about loud noises, followed by announcing on Russian public forums that their air defense was supposedly responding to the drones.
Later, it came to light that strikes were still occurring at the oil depot in Bryansk.
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This is what this facility looks like from above.
Photo: Google maps
Later, the governor of the Bryansk region, Alexander Bogomaz, stated that the air defense forces allegedly destroyed ten aircraft-type UAVs over the region. According to him, there were no casualties.
Photo: Screenshot from the video
"Operational and emergency services are working on the spot," the report said.
After a while, Bogomaz finally admitted that a drone attack caused a fire to break out at a production facility in Bryansk. However, he also mentioned that the fire had been put out.
In the meantime, a Russian Telegram channel, Astra, is reporting statements from local residents claiming that an oil refinery caught fire. The channel's authors suggest that the blaze actually occurred at the Druzhba oil pipeline filling station in a village near Bryansk.
Taganrog, Rostov region
In Taganrog, the local authorities have also announced a UAV attack and missile strikes.
"Attention! UAV attack. If possible, go down to the lower floors and the basement. Find a place without windows, sit on the floor," the city's mayor, Svetlana Kambulova, wrote.
Frightened Russians published footage in which loud explosions could be heard in the city. They complained that the sirens were turned on only after the explosions, and some shelters turned out to be closed.
"Fragments fell in the military camp," they wrote online.
Later, the acting governor of the Rostov region, Yuriy Slyusar, said that a missile attack had hit Taganrog.
"An industrial enterprise was damaged, and 14 cars in the parking lot burned down. According to preliminary data, no one was injured. The extent of the damage is being clarified," he wrote.
Meanwhile, the Russian Cheka–OGPU Telegram channel reported, citing eyewitness accounts, that many fire engines and military equipment had been mobilized and en route to the Beriev Taganrog Aviation Scientific and Technical Complex.
Helicopters, airplanes, and "other aircraft" are produced there. According to Russian media, the enterprise "takes a serious place in implementing state defense orders for several items." The plant was already hit in March of this year.
It should be noted that before the UAV attack on Taganrog, Russian monitoring platforms also reported a missile threat, namely a ballistic threat.
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Earlier in the Russian Federation, unknown strike drones attacked a military airfield in the Saratov region. The consequences of the attack are currently unknown.
