OREANDA-NEWS  Four people were killed in a drone attack on the Volgograd Region, Governor Andrei Bocharov said.

"As a result of today's attack by the criminal Kiev regime, there are victims among the employees of the southern industrial zone of Volgograd: four died, two were hospitalized," he was quoted as saying on the regional administration's channel in Maks.

On Friday night, Bocharov said that the air defense forces were repelling a massive UAV attack on the region. According to him, due to falling debris, local fires occurred at the enterprise in the southern industrial zone of Volgograd.

Later, the governor clarified that the glazing of windows and balconies in three five-story buildings and a youth center in the Svetly Yar work settlement had been damaged, and there were no casualties.

As reported by the Ministry of Defense, the military shot down 1,198 Ukrainian drones over Russia at night, including over the Volgograd region.