Ukrainian attacked an industrial plant around 1,300 kilometers (800 miles) inside Russia, local officials said Tuesday, while 鲍办谤补颈苍别鈥檚 army remained locked in an intense battle to hold back on the key city of Pokrovsk in the .
Two drones targeted an industrial facility in Sterlitamak, a city in Russia鈥檚 Bashkortostan region, regional Gov. Radiy Habirov said in an online statement. He didn鈥檛 specify what facility was targeted but he said that both drones were shot down. There were no casualties, and the facility was operating normally, he said.
Meanwhile, the city administration reported an explosion at the Sterlitamak Petrochemical Plant caused the plant鈥檚 water treatment facility to partially collapse, adding that the cause of the explosion was not known. The plant, which makes rubber and aviation fuel, is not known to have been attacked before.
鲍办谤补颈苍别鈥檚 deep inside Russia using domestically produced drones have embarrassed Moscow, with officials being unforthcoming about any damage, and unnerved Russians. Ukraine has taken aim at manufacturing plants, and military logistics hubs in a bid to disrupt Russia鈥檚 war effort almost four years after Moscow launched an .
Explosions were also heard at an industrial area of the Nizhny Novgorod region, some 800 kilometers (500 miles) from Ukraine, where an oil refinery and a petrochemical plant are located, Russian media reported. Officials did not confirm the reports.
Both Bashkortostan and Nizhny Novgorod are among the regions where the Russian Defense Ministry said Tuesday that Ukrainian drones were shot down, claiming that 85 were intercepted overnight.
Ukrainian officials said Russia bombarded the southeastern Dnipropetrovsk region of Ukraine with drones, missiles and artillery overnight, killing one person and injuring 11 others, including two children.
Russia fired seven missiles of various types and 130 strike and decoy drones at Ukraine during the night, 鲍办谤补颈苍别鈥檚 air force said.
Also, Romania鈥檚 Defense said Tuesday that Russia carried out two overnight attacks on 鲍办谤补颈苍别鈥檚 Danube port infrastructure, close to the border with the NATO member country.
Two pairs of fighter jets were separately deployed from two different airbases for air policing missions after 鈥渘umerous explosions were observed on the Ukrainian shore,鈥� the ministry said.
On the battlefield, Russia and Ukraine are fiercely contesting control of Pokrovsk, a Ukrainian stronghold in the Donetsk region that Moscow鈥檚 forces have been trying to capture for more than a year.
Russia has in recent months intensified its efforts in the area and has claimed its troops are making progress.
鈥淩ussian forces continue to advance in the Pokrovsk direction and appear to be operating with increasing comfort within Pokrovsk itself,鈥� the Institute for the Study of War, a Washington think tank, said late Monday.
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