Substation engineer killed in overnight drone attack in Taganrog, Russia

A man was killed and four people were injured in an overnight drone attack in Taganrog, Rostov region, Russia.

Yuri Slyusar reported that the fatality was the chief engineer of an electrical substation in Taganrog. Three men and one woman were wounded when UAV debris fell on their vehicles on a highway and at a gas station; the injured were hospitalized.

The attack damaged a section of the R-280 highway, including the road surface of a bridge over railway tracks in Neklinovsky district, along with four vehicles. Traffic on the bridge at the 64th kilometer was closed, with alternative routes organized via Taganrog and the village of Pokrovskoye. One additional vehicle was damaged at a gas station parking area by falling debris.

An electrical substation serving the railway in Taganrog was damaged, cutting power lines from Taganrog-Passazhirsky station to Mikhailovka station and suspending rail traffic. Another substation in the Shubin quarter of Taganrog was also damaged and caught fire. Emergency services responded to the sites. Approximately 50 UAVs were destroyed overnight in Taganrog, Rostov-on-Don and seven districts of the region.