Four killed in Ukrainian drone attack on industrial site in Russia

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In recent period, Ukraine has sent swarms of drones to industrial areas in Russia, with the aim of disabling refining capacity for several months. On Friday night, unmanned aircraft attacked refineries in the city of Volgograd, about 400 kilometers from the Ukrainian border, and several fires were documented in the area.

The attack came a day after Russian President Vladimir Putin met with envoys of U.S. President Donald Trump, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, for talks on ending the war in Ukraine. The envoys had left Moscow only a day earlier.

The regional governor, Andrei Bocharov, said four people were killed and two more wounded in the attack on the industrial zone in Volgograd, and that the strike was aimed at an industrial facility in the area. In Samara Region, four people were also killed at an industrial plant in a Ukrainian attack.