One of the largest attacks yet: Russia claims it shot down nearly 1,200 drones
Photo: The Russian ministry of defense announced that it had shot down nearly 1,200 drones (t.me/mchs_official)
On the night of November 13, 1,198 Ukrainian drones were shot down over regions of Russia and occupied Crimea, according to the Russian ministry of defense.
Since the start of the war, the only night on which more drones were shot down in a single night was October 29—1,214 drones.
Andrei Bocharov, governor of the Volgograd region, reported four dead and two wounded. According to him, they were “employees of the southern industrial zone of Volgograd.”
According to monitoring Telegram channels, the Volgograd Oil Refinery was hit.
Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin reported that 467 drones were flying toward the Moscow region.
“Most of them were destroyed by the Ministry of Defense’s air defense system at a distance; 144 drones were neutralized as they approached Moscow,” he said.
On the morning of November 13, drones once again attacked the Samara linear production and dispatch station near the village of Prosvet in the Samara region.
On the night of November 12–13, Volgograd and the Volgograd region came under a massive drone attack. As a result of the raid, a local oil refinery caught fire.
Rostov-on-Don and the Rostov region were also attacked on the night of November 13. The strikes caused fires in the region: a production facility caught fire in Rostov, and a 1,500-square-meter warehouse caught fire in the Aksai district.
