Russian officials confirmed Sunday that the central industrial city of Nizhnekamsk had endured "prolonged" Ukrainian airstrikes overnight, damaging a residential building and sparking a fire at a major petrochemical complex, injuring three people. Separate overnight strikes on Taganrog city killed an electricity substation engineer, according to the regional governor.
Ukrainian airstrikes hit the central Russian city of Nizhnekamsk on Sunday, local authorities said, with media reporting a fire in one of the country's biggest petrochemical plants.
"Early this morning, Nizhnekamsk was the target of a massive and prolonged attack by enemy drones. As a result of this attack, facilities in the industrial zone were damaged," the city's mayor, Radmir Belyaev, wrote on Telegram.
A residential building was also damaged, he added.
Nizhnekamsk, a city of about 240,000 people, is often dubbed the "petrochemical capital" of Tatarstan. It is home to oil refineries and a major petrochemical plant.
Authorities in the region, quoted by Russian media, said three people were wounded.
Ukrainian and Russian media said the strikes caused a fire at the Nizhnekamskneftekhim (NKNK) petrochemical complex, owned by leading Russian company Sibur.
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