Drones presumably attacked the Lukoil-Volgogradneftepererabotka oil refinery in Volgograd, Russia, with local residents reporting more than a dozen explosions on the night of 17-18 September.

Source: Andrei Bocharov, governor of Volgograd Oblast; Russian Telegram channels; Russian Ministry of Defence

Details: According to local residents, the sound of engines and explosions could be heard in the southern part of Volgograd. Loud noises were also reported in nearby settlements, Telegram channel Shot wrote.

At Volgograd airport, the Kovyor (Carpet) plan was activated, and two flights to Moscow were cancelled. [A Kovyor plan is an airport operational safety procedure for airport services and personnel when an unidentified object appears in the sky – ed.]

The regional governor said that falling UAV wreckage shattered windows and damaged the roof of two houses in the Krasnoarmeysky district. No casualties were reported.

On social media, it is suggested that the drones’ target was a facility belonging to Lukoil, a company that supplies fuel to the Russian forces.

The Russian Ministry of Defence claimed that during the night, air defence intercepted and destroyed 43 Ukrainian fixed-wing UAVs over Russia’s Rostov, Volgograd, Kursk and Belgorod oblasts, as well as over occupied Crimea.

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