One fatality, several casualties: aftermath of overnight Ukrainian drone attack on Russia

MOSCOW, April 23. /TASS/. Air defenses shot down 154 Ukrainian drones over Russian regions overnight, the Defense Ministry reported.

The drones targeted industrial facilities in Novokuybyshevsk in the Samara Region. Preliminary reports indicate there are casualties, including one fatality. There are also casualties resulting from falling drone debris onto the roof of a residential building in Samara, with one person hospitalized.

TASS has compiled the main information about the attack’s aftermath.

- On-duty air defenses intercepted and destroyed 154 Ukrainian fixed-wing drones over Russian regions between 8:00 p.m. Moscow time on April 22 and 7:00 a.m. Moscow time on April 23 (between 5:00 p.m. GMT on April 22 and 4:00 a.m. GMT on April 23), the Defense Ministry said.

- According to its statement, the drones were shot down over the Astrakhan, Belgorod, Bryansk, Volgograd, Voronezh, Kursk, Nizhny Novgorod, Rostov, and Samara Regions, Crimea, as well as the waters of the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea.