A mass drone attack damaged industrial facilities and an apartment building in Nizhnekamsk on November 15, officials said. People were injured, but the reports did not say how many or describe their condition.

Nizhnekamsk mayor Radmir Belyaev described the attack as prolonged and said emergency services were working at the affected sites. All residents of the damaged apartment building were evacuated, and two temporary accommodation centres were set up, according to the Kazan Kremlin press service. It said no one living in the building had been killed. Belyaev said doctors were treating the injured.

The reports did not identify the damaged industrial facilities or name a specific plant. They also did not report an explosion or fire in the November attack. The full extent of the damage remains unclear.

Hot water was temporarily shut off in the city to help ensure safe heat supply. Business Online reported that the interruption was due to last until 20:00; Vedomosti said the utility Tatenergo had suspended hot-water service.

The Kazan Kremlin press service said coordinated work by air-defence forces and mobile groups had helped prevent more extensive consequences. It also said Tatarstan leader Rustam Minnikhanov was receiving regular briefings on the situation. Those statements were not accompanied in the reports by further details about the attack or the damage.

A recent history of attacks

The reports recalled a drone attack on Nizhnekamsk on September 12 that killed two people and injured 12. Vedomosti said one drone fell on a car carrying four young people and that four other people were injured in a residential building. Business Online reported that an enterprise caught fire during that earlier attack.

The September casualties relate to that previous incident, not the November 15 attack. For the latest attack, officials have reported injuries but have not released a figure. Their accounts report damage to industrial-zone facilities and a residential building, but do not specify which businesses or facilities were hit.