At least one person has lost their life and four others have been injured in a drone attack recorded on Saturday night in the Russian region of Rostov, the regional governor, Yuri Sliusar, reported.
The fatal victim was the chief engineer of an electrical substation in the area. The injured, three men and a woman, were taken to a medical center after debris from an unmanned aerial device struck the vehicle they were traveling in, both on a highway and at a gas station, Sliusar specified in a message shared on Telegram.
The offensive struck two electrical substations located in Taganrog, one of them directly linked to the power supply of the rail installations. The attack caused a fire in an infrastructure in the district of Shubin and left the power lines connecting the Taganrog and Mikhailovka stations without service, which forced train traffic to be suspended.
In addition, a bridge over the railway tracks in the district of Neklinovski suffered damage, affecting a section of the R-280 highway. The authorities have closed the road at this point and have set up detours for vehicular traffic through Taganrog and Pokrovskoie. In total, five vehicles were affected: four near the bridge and another at a service station.
The governor indicated that Russian air defense systems managed to bring down 50 drones during the night only in Taganrog and in seven other districts of the region. Even so, he warned that "the threat of new drone attacks" remains present.
At the same time, the Russian Ministry of Defense has raised to 533 the number of Ukrainian fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles "intercepted and destroyed" between early Saturday and Sunday over various regions of the country, as well as in the Republic of Crimea and over the waters of the Azov and Black seas.
The infrastructures in this region had already been attacked previously. On November 8, another similar incident caused damage to a bridge and several power plants, according to the version provided by the Russian authorities.