“Locals write that they’re not even trying to shoot them down. The drones are falling nonstop,” one Telegram channel reported.
The Alchevsk Metallurgical Plant is currently operating, but its function has changed significantly. Following the city’s occupation by Russia in 2014, it transitioned from civilian metallurgy to military production.
Currently, the plant produces armored steel for military vehicles and artillery shell casings, processes metal for the Russian army, and performs other functions within Russia’s military-industrial complex.
Several months ago, on Dec. 6, 2025, the Alchevsk Metallurgical Plant was hit by Ukrainian UAVs.
Today, March 30, more than 60 Ukrainian drones attacked Russia’s Rostov Region early on the morning of Monday, according to regional governor Yuriy Slyusar.
As per his data, Taganrog was hit, where residential buildings caught fire as a result of falling debris. One person was killed and eight others were injured.
City’s mayor Svetlana Kambulova reported that 12 apartment buildings, 27 private homes, 1 school, a school camp, and 3 industrial enterprises were damaged. Residents have been evacuated, fires have been extinguished, and bomb disposal teams are working at the debris sites.
Ukrainian drones also attacked Krasnodar, according to the city’s mayor, Yevgeny Naumov. One of the drones crashed into a multi-story residential building in the Prikubansky District of Krasnodar. Three people were injured.
According to a report from the Russian Ministry of Defense, air defense forces “intercepted and destroyed” 102 Ukrainian fixed-wing drones overnight. The drones were spotted over the Belgorod, Kursk, Voronezh, Rostov, Volgograd, Penza, Ulyanovsk, and Samara regions, as well as the Krasnodar Territory, the Sea of Azov, and annexed Crimea.
Ukrainian authorities have not yet commented on their involvement in the strikes.
It is worth noting that damage to the Baltic port of Ust-Luga occurred as a result of a drone attack on Sunday, Leningrad Oblast Governor Alexander Drozdenko reported on Telegram, without providing further details.
Over the past week, the Baltic ports of Primorsk and Ust-Luga – Russia’s largest oil export facilities in the Baltic – have been attacked by drones several times.
The port of Primorsk handles approximately 1 million barrels of oil per day and about 300,000 barrels of diesel fuel per day, making it a key transshipment point for Russia’s main Urals grade and Euro-5 low-sulfur diesel fuel. Ust-Luga handles approximately 700,000 barrels of oil per day, as well as naphtha, fuel oil, and vacuum gas oil.
On March 22, both ports suspended loading of oil and petroleum products following a drone attack.
A drone attack at the port of Primorsk on March 23 caused several fuel tanks to catch fire.
On March 25, a drone attack caused a fire at the port of Ust-Luga.
As a result of the attack, Novatek suspended the processing of stable gas condensate and the export of naphtha from its complex in Ust-Luga.
As per Reuters sources, the attack at the Ust-Luga terminal damaged a railway overpass used for unloading petroleum products from tank cars, and the Ust-Luga Oil terminal stopped accepting fuel volumes on Wednesday.
The suspension of export transshipment of petroleum products through the port of Ust-Luga may force large refineries in the European part of Russia to reduce processing due to export difficulties, Russian media wrote, citing market participants.
