MOSCOW: A massive drone attack on Russia’s southern city of Volgograd killed one person and caused a fire in an industrial area, a local official said Thursday, as Ukraine claimed to have struck a nearby refinery.
The attack hit a 24-story apartment block, damaging balconies and shattering windows of nearby houses, Volgograd governor Andrey Bocharov said on Telegram,
“A 48-year-old civilian man was killed by shrapnel from the attack,” he said.
“Falling debris caused a fire in an industrial area in the Krasnoarmeysky district,” he said, adding that the blaze had since been extinguished.
Volgograd, more than 400 kilometers (250 miles) from the fighting in eastern Ukraine, is an industrial hub home to gas and petroleum refining plants.
