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Posted on June 27, 2025
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A Ukrainian drone attack temporarily disrupted traffic on the Don River bridge in Volgograd. No injuries were reported, and Russian air defense destroyed 39 drones.
(Reuters) -Traffic on the Don River in the Kalachevsky district of Russia's Volgograd region was temporarily restricted to eliminate wreckage from a "massive" Ukrainian drone attack, the regional governor's administration said on Friday.
"Sappers are at work," Volgograd Governor Andrei Bocharov was cited as saying in a post on the Telegram messaging app by the region's administration.
He added that there were no injuries as a result of the attack.
It was not immediately clear whether the bridge on the Don River, Europe's fifth-longest, was damaged.
The Russian defence ministry said in a post on Telegram that its air defence units destroyed 39 Ukrainian drones overnight over the Russian territory and the Crimean Peninsula, including 13 over the Volgograd region.
Volgograd airport was closed for more than three hours before flights were restored just before 7 a.m. local time (0400 GMT), Russia's civil aviation authority Rosaviatsia said on Telegram.
(Reporting by Lidia Kelly in Warsaw; Editing by Muralikumar Anantharaman and Jacqueline Wong)
Traffic on the Don River was temporarily restricted due to wreckage from a massive Ukrainian drone attack.
No injuries were reported as a result of the drone attack, according to Volgograd Governor Andrei Bocharov.
Sappers were deployed to eliminate wreckage from the drone attack, and Volgograd airport was closed for over three hours before flights resumed.
The Russian defense ministry reported that its air defense units destroyed 39 Ukrainian drones overnight over Russian territory and the Crimean Peninsula.
It was not immediately clear whether the bridge on the Don River was damaged as a result of the attack.
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