Russia announces attack by 36 Ukrainian drones: explosions heard, large-scale fire in Nizhny Novgorod. Photos and videos

30.06.2024 – Translated from Ukrainian via Google and OFP

Fire in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia

On the night of June 30, loud explosions were heard in a number of regions of Russia , allegedly due to an attack by “36 Ukrainian Armed Forces drones.” At the same time, a powerful fire broke out in warehouses with paint and varnish materials in Nizhny Novgorod.

Smoke from the fire could be seen for many kilometers, and Russians complained that their country had been hit by a “flash mob” of fires. On Telegram channels they distributed a video of a large-scale fire, which local rescuers were unable to localize for a long time.

Thus, the governor of the Bryansk region, Alexander Bogomaz, said that Russian air defense shot down four aircraft-type drones over the Trubchevsky district that night. According to him, “there were no casualties or destruction.”

The head of the Belgorod region, Vyacheslav Gladkov, also assured about the elimination of drones. And at the same time, there is a defeat in Gayvoron due to the UAV strike: two of them allegedly attacked an apartment building, where windows were broken in two apartments and a car was chopped up with debris.

Russia announces attack by "36 Ukrainian drones": explosions heard, large-scale fire in Nizhny Novgorod. Photos and videos
Fire at warehouses in Nizhny Novgorod. Source: screenshot from video

Locals wrote about loud explosions in the Cheremysinovsky, Shchigrovsky, Timsky, Solntsevsky and Pristensky districts, and also said that “the light went out” in the north-west of the region. The flight of a UAV was also reported in the Zheleznogorsk district of the Kursk region of the Russian Federation.

Russia announces attack by "36 Ukrainian drones": explosions heard, large-scale fire in Nizhny Novgorod. Photos and videos
Comments from Russians. Source: screenshot

At this time, the Russians wrote that at night a powerful fire broke out in Nizhny Novgorod, where explosions were heard at the same time. According to some reports, warehouses were burning on the territory of the waste disposal site on the side of the Moscow Highway. From different parts of the city, a huge column of thick black smoke was visible many kilometers away.

Russia announces attack by "36 Ukrainian drones": explosions heard, large-scale fire in Nizhny Novgorod. Photos and videos
The fire broke out in the area from the Moskovskoe Highway. Source: screenshot

The Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations assigned the fire, which covered an area of ​​up to 1,000 square meters, the second rank of complexity. They confirmed that tanks with paint and varnish materials were burning, and there may be gas cylinders inside the buildings. Local firefighters were unable to localize the fire for a long time, and they did not say anything about victims.

Smoke was visible several kilometers from the fire. Source: screenshot from video

The Russian Defense Ministry claims that on the night of June 30, their air defense systems “destroyed 36 Ukrainian Armed Forces drones.” In particular, 15 UAVs were allegedly shot down over the Kursk Region, nine over the Lipetsk Region, four over the Voronezh and Bryansk Regions, and two over the Oryol and Belgorod Regions. They did not comment on the large-scale fire in Nizhny Novgorod.

Later, the Russians reported another powerful fire, but this time in the Irkutsk region. There, in the city of Bratsk, a warehouse of finished products was burning on an area of ​​6,000 square meters.

As OBOZ.UA reported, the Russian capital has begun installing so-called anti-drone nets. This is how Moscow is trying to protect itself from Ukrainian drones, because it no longer relies on its own air defense and electronic warfare.

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4 comments

  1. The Russian Defense Ministry claims that on the night of June 30, their air defense systems “destroyed 36 Ukrainian Armed Forces drones.”

    Of course they did. All were intercepted right above their targets, as usual.

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