Updated: Governor Andrey Bocharov said four people were killed and two others hospitalized in the attack. He said all those killed and injured were employees of Volgograd’s southern industrial zone.
Volgograd came under a drone attack overnight. “The fall of UAV debris caused localized fires at a facility in Volgograd’s southern industrial zone and in the surrounding area. Emergency services are working at the scene. At this point, there are no casualties,” Volgograd Region Governor Andrey Bocharov said earlier.
Media and OSINT channels reported that the fire occurred at Lukoil’s oil refinery in the Krasnoarmeysky District. The city declared a missile threat alert the previous evening, while Volgograd Airport was closed to arrivals and departures.
Footage circulating on social media shows flames and thick smoke over the industrial zone in southern Volgograd.
One of Russia’s largest oil refineries
Industry sources put the Volgograd refinery’s designed capacity at around 14–15 million tonnes of oil per year. In 2024, the refinery processed 13.5 million tonnes, accounting for approximately 5% of all oil refining in Russia. According to estimates by the ASTRA project, the facility had been attacked at least 10 times since the start of the full-scale war as of May 2026.
Drone strikes on Russian oil refineries have become part of an ongoing campaign: Bloomberg reported that around 120 such attacks were recorded in 2025 alone. The nighttime attack on Volgograd came as U.S. special envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner discussed the outcome of their talks in Moscow with Vladimir Zelensky in Dublin.
Strikes on Rostov-on-Don
Drones also attacked Rostov Region that night. Governor Yury Slyusar said more than 120 UAVs were destroyed over Rostov-on-Don and 10 districts of the region. A man was injured in the regional capital and hospitalized; five apartment buildings were damaged, and a temporary accommodation center was opened for residents of one of them in the Oktyabrsky District.
Firefighters extinguished a blaze in a production facility in Rostov-on-Don’s Sovetsky District. A warehouse covering 1,500 square meters caught fire in Aksaysky District, while five private homes were damaged in Azovsky District. Slyusar warned that the drone threat remained in effect and urged residents to stay away from windows.
According to Russia’s Defense Ministry, 1,198 drones were destroyed overnight. Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin said 467 UAVs flew toward the capital region from the evening of November 12 until the morning of November 13, with most intercepted at long-range lines of defense.
Video and photos: social media
