Russia’s Military Facility Catches Fire After Ukrainian Drone Attack

A military facility in Russia’s Volgograd region caught fire on Thursday morning following a Ukrainian drone attack.

Russian air defence forces repelled the assault, destroying most of the Ukrainian drones, claimed Russian authorities following the attack.

“As a result of a drone crash, a fire broke out on a Defence Ministry facility,” Volgograd Governor Andrei Bocharov Bocharov wrote on Telegram.

“Fire and rescue services promptly started firefighting efforts. There were no casualties”, he added.

Russia’s Defence Ministry stated that its forces destroyed 13 Ukrainian drones over the Volgograd region without mentioning anything about the fire.

As per reports, flight operations at Volgograd Airport have been disrupted.

Several fires at the Marinovka base were recorded by NASA observation satellites.

Open-source intelligence bloggers said at least 14 Su-24 and 15 Su-34 bomber aircraft were at Marinovka earlier this week.

Russia’s investigative news outlet iStories, citing state media, reported that Marinka’s Su-34s may have been used to bomb Ukrainian targets in southwestern Russia’s Kursk region earlier on Thursday.