Industrial damage and utility outages
Tatarstan health minister Almir Abashev reported three people in moderate condition after drone attacks damaged industrial facilities in Nizhnekamsk and cut the city’s hot water on November 15. The attack hit a flat in a residential building, which forced the evacuation of all occupants and prevented any deaths. Mayor Radmir Belyaev and the utility Tatenergo said the evacuation was coordinated. Tatenergo suspended hot water across the city until 20:00 Moscow time to ensure heating could be supplied safely. The target identified by monitoring channels is Nizhnekamskneftekhim, a Sibur complex that converts feedstock from the TANECO and TAIF-NK refineries in the same industrial zone into synthetic rubber, plastics, ethylene, and other industrial chemicals, roughly 1,200 km from territory held by Ukraine. Monitoring channel Exilenova+ and the Russian outlet Astra identified the plant using open-source analysis of eyewitness footage. Militarnyi reported that drones hit the Etilen plant within the complex, though this remains an unconfirmed account. The Nizhnekamskneftekhim facility produced about 3mn tonnes of petrochemical products in 2025, and its EP-600 unit produces up to 600,000 tonnes of ethylene annually. The neighboring TANECO and TAIF-NK refineries were not reported hit.
Regional strikes on infrastructure and transport
Rostov region governor Yuri Slyusar said the chief engineer of a power substation died during an overnight attack on Taganrog. Two substations sustained damage, with one catching fire and the other cutting power to the railway between the Taganreg-Passazhirsky and Mikhailovka stations. The road surface of a bridge in the Neklinovsky district took damage, which closed the R-280 highway at the 64th kilometre and diverted traffic through Taganrog and Pokrovskoye. The Kyiv Independent reported four people were injured, while the Moscow Times reported five people were hurt after debris fell on a vehicle and in a production workshop in the village of Troitskoye. In the Samara region, the Ukrainian General Staff reported that strikes on a linear production and dispatch station near Prosvet on November 13 set several crude storage tanks ablaze. Bloomberg placed the station 860 km southeast of Moscow and noted its capacity at more than 1.6mn cubic metres. Governor Vyacheslav Fedorishchev said four people died after the drone strike hit an industrial enterprise in the region. In the Lipetsk region, the General Staff said the Lipetsk-2 military airfield was hit, damaging a hangar, an aviation fuel storage tank, the central air traffic control centre, and other equipment.
Drone campaigns and Ukrainian energy impacts
| Facility/Target | Location | Reported Impact |
|---|---|---|
| Nizhnekamskneftekhim | Nizhnekamsk | Industrial damage, hot water cut |
| Power Substation | Taganrog | Killed engineer, railway power lost |
| Samara Dispatch Station | Prosvet | Crude storage tanks on fire, 4 killed |
| DTEK Energy Facility | Odesa region | 50,000 consumers lost power |
In Zaporizhzhia, Russian forces launched 12 guided aerial bomb strikes on the city on the evening of November 14. Mykhailo Semikin and Ivan Fedorenko reported six people were injured, including a two-year-old child and women aged 40, 78, and 79. Earlier that day, the injury toll from strikes in the Voznesenivskyi district rose to 22 people, with a six-month-old baby, a two-year-old girl, a 12-year-old boy, and other children among them. In Poltava, a drone struck a Naftogaz Group facility on November 14, starting a large-scale fire. Serhii Fedorenko said attacks on Naftogaz infrastructure had been running almost daily that week. In Chernihiv, a drone struck a facility in Mena on November 14, killing two men aged 42 and 45 and injuring a 33-year-old. In the Odesa region, a strike on a DTEK energy facility on November 14 cut power to about 50,000 consumers. Ukraine’s air force said Russia launched 132 drones against Ukraine starting at 18:00 on November 14, including 78 jet-powered Shaheds. The air force reported that 106 drones were shot down or suppressed by 08:00 on November 15. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said almost 700,000 families lost electricity because Russia had attacked Ukrainian energy facilities more than 310 times since the month began. He spoke after a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron.
