{"id":36590,"date":"2026-08-10T14:32:37","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T09:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=36590"},"modified":"2026-08-10T14:32:37","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T09:32:37","slug":"ukrainian-drone-attack-on-the-russian-city-of-nizhnekamsk-kills-12-authorities-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=36590","title":{"rendered":"Ukrainian drone attack on the Russian city of Nizhnekamsk kills 12, authorities say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F2%2F2026%2F08%2Fnewspress-collage-0w3b2p5mb-1786351955434.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall%261786337576\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A Ukrainian drone attack Monday on the Russian city of Nizhnekamsk killed 12 people and wounded 39 others, authorities in the Tatarstan region said.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine has\u00a0targeted Russian oil facilities\u00a0with\u00a0long-range drones\u00a0almost daily in recent months. The barrage has caused\u00a0fuel shortages\u00a0in Russia, eaten into Russian refining capacity, and unsettled the Russian public.<\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says it is a campaign to force Russian President Vladimir Putin to the negotiating table and stop his\u00a0more than 4-year-old invasion.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Russian President Vladimir Putin holds the Security Council meeting in Moscow, Friday, Aug. 7, 2026.  <span class=\"credit\">Alexander Kazakov\/Pool Sputnik K<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Nizhnekamsk came under a \u201cmassive\u201d drone attack targeting industrial and civilian facilities on Monday morning, according to the press service of Tatarstan\u2019s head, Rustam Minnikhanov. No further details were immediately available.<\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian officials made no immediate comment.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Nizhnekamsk is roughly 750 miles east of the Ukrainian border and has a population of about 240,000. The city is an important oil refining hub, home to two refineries and a petrochemical plant.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine\u2019s domestically developed long-range drones have flown increasing distances deep inside Russia, with some now reaching Siberia, around 1,200 miles from the countries\u2019 border.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe do deliver entirely justified responses, and every Russian strike will be met with our response. Russia\u2019s war will be felt more and more at their own home \u2013 in Russia,\u201d Zelensky said late Sunday on social media.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Ukraine\u2019s President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks during a press conference with his Serbian counterpart Aleksandar Vucic at the Serbia Palace, in Belgrade, Serbia, Saturday, Aug. 8, 2026.  <span class=\"credit\">AP Photo\/Darko Vojinovic<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Firefighters put out a fire following a Russian air attack in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, Monday, Aug. 10, 2026. <span class=\"credit\">Ukrainian Emergency Service via AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThe only reason this is still continuing is Russia\u2019s unwillingness to end this war.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Russia has also\u00a0regularly battered Ukraine\u00a0from the air using missiles, powerful glide bombs and drones, hitting civilian areas and causing thousands of civilian casualties, according to the United Nations.<\/p>\n<p>The World Health Organization\u2019s European office said Monday that one of its warehouses in the central Dnipro region of Ukraine had been struck twice in less than 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>The attacks destroyed emergency supplies worth an estimated $500,000 that were intended for front-line health facilities, it said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>No casualties were reported.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Ukrainian drone attack Monday on the Russian city of Nizhnekamsk killed 12 people and wounded 39 others, authorities in the Tatarstan region said. Ukraine has\u00a0targeted Russian oil facilities\u00a0with\u00a0long-range drones\u00a0almost daily in recent months. The barrage has caused\u00a0fuel shortages\u00a0in Russia, eaten into Russian refining capacity, and unsettled the Russian public. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/08\/newspress-collage-0w3b2p5mb-1786351955434.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&1786337576&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pics-news"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}