Ukraine Strikes Russian Missile Fuel Plant, Oil Depot and Yandex Data Center as Moscow Claims 505 Drones Downed

Overnight on October 9, drones attacked a Redkino Experimental Plant in Tver Oblast, producing fuel components for Russia's Kh-101 cruise missiles, a second Yandex data center, and a refinery in the far north, according to Russian officials and monitoring channels. No Ukrainian casualties were reported in these strikes.

The plant, which makes Decilin-M fuel for Kh-55 and Kh-101 cruise missiles, as well as additives for diesel and aviation kerosene, reportedly caught fire as defenders repelled the drone attack, though no workers were injured, said Tver Oblast Governor Vitaly Korolev. The plant also produces ferrocene derivatives used as burn catalysts in solid-fuel rocket motors.

Three days earlier, Yandex lost a second data center to drone attacks, with parts of the Kaluga facility damaged and several modules knocked out, affecting some of the company's services, according to the company's press service. Nine people were reportedly injured in the attack on Kaluga Oblast.

In northern Russia, an attack on the Ukhta refinery in Komi Republic and a burning oil depot near Belgorod left two people dead and four injured, including a child, according to Belgorod's regional headquarters. A large fire broke out in Pushkino near Moscow, likely at a truck parking lot, but the cause remains unknown.