Russia claims nearly 1,200 Ukrainian drones intercepted overnight as oil facilities come under attack
Russia claimed its air defenses intercepted and destroyed 1,198 Ukrainian drones overnight on November 13, in what would be one of the largest reported drone attacks on Russian territory since the start of the full-scale invasion.
The Russian Defense Ministry said the drones were intercepted between 8 p.m. on November 12 and 8 a.m. on November 13 over 17 Russian regions, the Moscow area, Russian-occupied Crimea and the Black Sea.
The ministry previously claimed to have shot down 1,214 drones on October 29.
The figures could not be independently verified, and Ukraine has not confirmed launching an operation of that scale.
Meanwhile, Russian authorities and monitoring channels reported casualties and fires at industrial facilities.
Volgograd regional governor Andrei Bocharov said four workers were killed and two others injured in an attack on an industrial area of the city. Monitoring channels reported that the Volgograd oil refinery, one of Russia's largest, had been targeted.
The Ukrainian monitoring channel Exilenova+ also reported a strike on the Samara oil pumping and storage facility, which receives, stores and blends crude oil transported through major pipelines from Tatarstan, western Siberia and other Russian oil-producing regions. Local images circulating online appeared to show a large fire at the site.
Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin separately claimed that 467 drones had been heading toward the capital region, including 144 intercepted as they approached Moscow.
The reported damage and the Russian interception figures have not been independently verified.