Ukrainian drones strike Russia's Rostov Oblast, target railway station in 'massive' attack
Editor's note: This is a developing story and is being updated.
Ukrainian drones targeted the Tatsinskaya railway station in Russia's Rostov Oblast overnight on Aug. 5, local media reported.
The railway station acts as a logistics hub for nearby oil infrastructure and is used to transport grain.
Russian gasoline prices hit a record high, with the cost of Ai-95 gasoline hitting a record level on the St. Petersburg International Mercantile Exchange (SPIMEX) amid Ukrainian strikes on Moscow's oil infrastructure.
At least 10 explosions occurred throughout Rostov Oblast as air defenses responded to the drone attack, local media reported.
In the town of Millerovo, power outages reportedly occurred. Mobile networks partially shut down in the region, the electric utility company Donenergo said.
Ukraine's military has not commented on the attack, and the claims could not be independently verified.
Rostov Oblast acting Governor Yuriy Slyusar in the morning of Aug. 5 reported that Russia's military "repelled a massive air attack" in the Bely Kalitva, Tatsinsky, Chertkovsky, and Millerovsky districts of the oblast.
"At a farmstead in Verkhnetalovka, Millerovsky district, a substation caught fire," with the blaze later extinguished, he said.
Another fire broke out and was quickly put out near the Tatsinskaya railway station, with a canopy in a home's yard burning, Slyusar said.
No one was injured in the drone attack, he reported.
Tatsinskaya is located about 100 kilometers (62 miles) from Ukraine's border with Russia and approximately 305 kilometers (189 miles) from Ukrainian-held territory near Pokrovsk in Donetsk Oblast.
Ukraine regularly strikes military infrastructure deep within Russia in an effort to diminish Moscow's fighting power, as it continues to wage its war.
Overnight on Aug. 4, drones operated by Ukraine's Security Service (SBU) struck five Russian fighter jets at an airfield in Saky, in Russian-occupied Crimea. The drone attack destroyed a Su-30SM aircraft, damaged another, hit three Su-24s, and hit an aviation weapons depot.
A "massive" Ukrainian drone attack targeted the Archeda railway station in Russia's Volgograd Oblast on Aug. 4, causing rail disruptions and temporarily shutting down operations at a regional airport.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian forces destroyed a Russian S-300 surface-to-air missile system in Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Ukraine's General Staff reported on Aug. 4.
