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Drones return to Nizhnekamsk, and the airports close before dawn

A massed drone attack crossed Tatarstan in the night into Thursday, densest over the Zakamsk industrial zone, 10 days after a strike on the same district killed 13 people, 9 of them Central Asian workers. Officials count injuries, no deaths. By Friday before dawn, flight restrictions reached Kazan, Samara and 5 more airports.

Drones return to Nizhnekamsk, and the airports close before dawn

The alert in Nizhnekamsk ran from 02:02 to 07:53. Drones came at Nizhnekamsk, Kazan, Naberezhnye Chelny and Almetyevsk, with the heaviest concentration over Zakamsk, the zone that holds the Taneco refinery and Nizhnekamskneftekhim.

β€œAir defense forces successfully repelled another massed attack on our district,” district head Radmir Belyaev said. The official account reports injuries under medical supervision and no deaths. The Ukrainian wire RBC-Ukraine described an attack on one of Russia's largest refineries. The plant's condition is unstated.

The 10 August strike killed 8 Uzbek workers, 1 Tajik, 3 Russian subcontractor employees and a 5-year-old girl. Bodies went home on a special flight on 12 August, and Tashkent tied its own compensation to the end of the Russian investigation.

β€œAir defense forces successfully repelled another massed attack on our district.”

The response commission on the Uzbek side is headed by vice-premier Achilbay Ramatov; no public statement from him has surfaced in the 11 days since the strike. Tatarstan's payments decree still has no published number.

Before dawn on Friday, Rosaviatsia suspended flights at Vladikavkaz, Kazan, Samara and Cheboksary, then at Grozny, Kirov and Ufa. The agency gave no cause. No new strike on Tatarstan had been reported by publication time.