Jan 14 (Reuters) - A Ukrainian drone attack overnight caused two fires at an industrial facility, injured four people and damaged apartment buildings in the southern Russian port of Rostov-on-Don,
Ukrainian Drone Strike in Rostov-on-Don Claims One Life and Injures Four
Impact of the Drone Attack
MOSCOW, Jan 14 (Reuters) - A Ukrainian drone attack killed one person, injured four others and sparked fires at an unidentified industrial facility in the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don, regional officials said on Wednesday.
Casualties and Injuries
Yuri Slyusar, governor of Rostov region, said four people, including a four-year-old child, were injured when falling debris from downed drones damaged their apartments.
Response from Russian Authorities
He later said rescuers discovered a body of a man while clearing the rubble in an apartment that caught fire after the attack, while clearing the rubble.
Strategic Importance of Rostov-on-Don
A fire was sparked at an industrial facility in the city. Slyusar did not identify the facility. There was no comment from Ukraine about the strike.
Russia's defence ministry said that its air defences destroyed 25 Ukrainian drones over the Rostov region overnight and 23 over other Russian regions and the Crimean Peninsula.
Ukraine has used drones to strike targets inside Russia, saying such attacks seek to degrade Moscow’s military and energy infrastructure and respond to Russia’s continued strikes on Ukrainian cities during the war that Moscow launched nearly four years ago.
Rostov-on-Don, a major transport and logistics hub near Ukraine, hosts key military headquarters and routes used to supply Russian forces, making it a strategic rear-area centre for Moscow’s operations and a target for drones.
(Reporting by Lidia Kelly in Melbourne and Reuters reporters in Moscow; Editing by Tom Hogue, Thomas Derpinghaus and Michael Perry)
