Overnight into September 12, drones struck the KuibyshevAzot chemical plant in Tolyatti and a military airfield and car plant in Taganrog, Russia, sparking fires.
Overnight into September 12, 2026, drones struck the KuibyshevAzot chemical plant in Tolyatti, Samara Oblast — roughly 900 km from the Ukrainian border. A large fire broke out at the plant, which produces caprolactam, polyamide-6, ammonia, and urea. Volunteers Support Ukraine tracks reports of long-range strikes like this, since they are part of what gradually wears down Russia's ability to keep waging its full-scale war.
That same night, drones hit the Taganrog-Central military airfield, home to a military transport aviation regiment and an aircraft repair plant, as well as the Taganrog Automobile Plant (TAGAZ) roughly 40 km from the Ukrainian border — a site monitors say is used to assemble components for strike drones. Debris from one of the drones also set a nearby store on fire.
Russian officials reported no casualties. Ukraine's General Staff had not officially confirmed the strikes as of publication — reporting on both incidents rests mainly on Telegram monitoring channels ("Exilenova+", "Supernova+") and NASA FIRMS satellite fire data, rather than an official Ukrainian statement. Volunteers Support Ukraine states this plainly, so that unconfirmed details aren't presented as established fact.
Tolyatti and Taganrog sit on opposite sides of European Russia — one hundreds of kilometers inland, the other just a few dozen kilometers from the front line, illustrating the geography of the night's strikes.
Every confirmed or likely strike on industry that feeds Russia's war machine is, in analysts' assessment, a step toward reducing Russia's capacity to build the weapons used against Ukrainian cities. Volunteers Support Ukraine keeps helping people affected by the war with whatever resources it has available, and keeps following the news from both sides of the front just as closely.
