Large-scale drone attack reported in Russia: chemical plant ablaze in Tolyatti

The Russian authorities have reported that several regions in Russia came under a large-scale drone attack on the night of 10-11 March. Explosions have been heard in Sochi and a chemical plant has been burning in the city of Tolyatti in Samara Oblast.

Source: Astra, a Russian media outlet; governors of the Russian regions affected overnight; Russian Defence Ministry

Details: Samara Oblast Governor Vyacheslav Fedorishchev said that a UAV attack had taken place and a Kovyor (Carpet) plan had been introduced in the oblast. [A Kovyor plan is an airport operational safety procedure for airport services and personnel when an unidentified object appears in the sky – ed.]

Astra wrote that residents of Tolyatti had reported multiple explosions and a fire at a chemical plant, likely KuibyshevAzot, on the morning of 11 March. Another chemical facility, Tolyattikauchuk, is located nearby. [Tolyattikauchuk is one of the largest companies in Russia's petrochemical industry – ed.]

According to KuibyshevAzot's website, the company is one of Russia's leading chemical producers, a major manufacturer of caprolactam and its derivatives, and one of the country's largest producers of nitrogen fertilisers.

The mayor of Sochi in Russia's Krasnodar Krai also reported that air defence systems were responding.

The Russian Defence Ministry claimed that its air defence systems had intercepted and destroyed 185 Ukrainian UAVs over Astrakhan, Belgorod, Bryansk, Volgograd, Voronezh, Kursk, Rostov, Samara and Saratov oblasts and Krasnodar Krai as well as temporarily occupied Crimea and the waters of the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov.

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