Drones have attacked Taganrog: two electrical substations and bridge have been damaged, and train services have been suspended. VIDEO

A bridge on the motorway and two electricity substations were damaged as a result of a drone attack on the Russian city of Taganrog.

This has been reported by local authorities, according to Censor.NET, citing ASTRA.

"The chief engineer of the power substation was killed as a result of the enemy attack in Taganrog," said Yuriy Slyusar, Governor of the Rostov Region.

A motorway and a bridge were hit

Slyusar also added that the attack damaged a section of the R-280 road – specifically, the road surface of the bridge over the railway tracks in the Neklinovsky District. Four cars were damaged at the scene. Traffic across the bridge at the 64th kilometre of the road has been blocked; vehicles are being diverted via Taganrog and the village of Pokrovskoye. On the same road, one car was damaged at a petrol station car park by falling debris from the UAV.

Attacks on electrical substations

In addition, two power substations in Taganrog were attacked. One of them serves the railway.

"There is no fire. Power lines from Taganrog-Passenger station to Mikhailivka station have been cut off. Rail traffic has been suspended. Also in Taganrog, a substation in the Shubin district has been damaged. A fire has broken out," reports an official.

In total, over the course of the night in Rostov-on-Don, Taganrog and seven districts of the Rostov Region (Neklinovsky, Verkhnedonsky, Kamensk, Tarasovsky, Millerovsky, Sholokhovsky and Chertkovsky), around 50 UAVs were destroyed, according to the region’s governor.

Details

The attack on Taganrog was reported last night. ASTRA’s OSINT expert has established that, as a result of the attack in Taganrog, one of the city’s key energy facilities – the 220 kV ‘T-10’ (‘Taganrog-10’) substation – has likely been damaged. The substation plays a role in supplying electricity to Taganrog and its industrial zone, in particular to large enterprises such as JSC ‘TAGMET’. It is situated on the northern outskirts of the city – in the very same area where the Shubin district mentioned by the governor, the de-energised section of railway and the damaged bridge on the R-280 road are located.