Four houses damaged in overnight Ukrainian drone attack on Russia's Volgograd

Four private houses were damaged in the Volgograd region following an overnight attack by the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU), regional governor Andrei Bocharov said on October 15.

According to Bocharov, Russian air defence units from the Ministry of Defence intercepted an attempted drone strike targeting the region.

“Tonight, the air defence forces of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation repelled an attack of unmanned aerial vehicles on the territory of the Volgograd region,” he stated via the regional government’s Telegram channel.

The governor specified that four private houses in the village of Kirov sustained damage but confirmed that there were no injuries. No additional details about the incident were provided.

The attack came a day after a similar strike on October 14 in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, where a Ukrainian drone hit an energy facility, temporarily disrupting electricity supply, according to the local governor. No casualties were reported in that case either.

These latest incidents continue a growing pattern of Ukrainian drone operations reaching deep inside Russian territory, increasingly targeting energy infrastructure and military-industrial facilities.

Earlier in October, on the nights of October 6–7, Ukraine claimed responsibility for strikes on the Sverdlov explosives plant in Dzerzhinsk, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast — one of Russia’s major munitions producers. The attack reportedly caused fires and explosions, despite Moscow’s assertions that its air defences intercepted around 20 drones with no resulting damage.

In the same period, Ukrainian drones also targeted oil refineries in Kstovo and Tuapse, along with Crimea’s Feodosia terminal, during what Russian authorities described as a massive overnight assault that saw more than 250 drones shot down — the largest such barrage in the past six months.

By Tamilla Hasanova