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Overnight on November 25, the Russian city of Taganrog came under a mass drone attack, with dozens of explosions reported and fires breaking out. Social media accounts said a local aircraft plant was struck and suggested an A-60 aircraft may have been destroyed. Witnesses claimed more than 20 blasts were heard in Taganrog, in Russia’s Rostov region, according to local Telegram channels . “According to eyewitnesses, windows shook in some homes, and car alarms went off,” users wrote. Local authorities confirmed a drone attack on Taganrog. Two apartment buildings and one private house were damaged, and a warehouse in an industrial zone caught fire. At least three people were injured. Three people were killed in overnight drone attacks on Taganrog and the Neklinovsky District of Russia’s Rostov region on November 25, the region’s governor Yuri Slyusar wrote on his Telegram channel . “According to emergency services as of 7 a.m., the overnight attack damaged a paint shop, a warehouse, several public facilities, four apartment buildings, 12 private homes, and four cars,” the governor wrote. The Telegram channel Astra , after analyzing photos and videos from the impact sites, concluded that a fire broke out at the Beriev Taganrog Aviation Scientific and Technical Complex (TANTK named after G. M. Beriev) as a result of the drone strike. At the same time, several OSINT channels reported that an aircraft plant in Taganrog came under fire: Preliminary, unconfirmed information also points to a strike on a Soviet-era experimental laser system built on an Il-76MD military transport airframe. Some of the footage circulating online appears to support this. Eyewitness videos indicated the strike hit the facility’s grounds and one of its hangars, where Tu-95MS/Tu-95MSM strategic bombers—carriers of Kh-101 cruise missiles used by Russia to strike Ukraine—are serviced and upgraded. The most notable target, however, was one of the rarest and most secret aviation projects of the USSR and Russia—the A-60 aircraft, tail number RA-86879, built on the Il-76MD airframe, the outlet Militarnyi reported . One airframe was destroyed in a fire in 1989 at Chkalovsky airfield. According to Russian sources, the fire broke out when technicians allegedly tried to siphon alcohol from a live cooling system for “internal use.” The second prototype—known as “product 1A2- was also built on an Il-76MD and sat for decades at the Taganrog Machine-Building Plant. As of now, there has been no official confirmation that the aircraft plant or any aircraft were hit. Earlier, on the evening of November 24 and after midnight, explosions were reported in Russia’s Krasnodar region, with Novorossiysk, Tuapse, Gelendzhik and other cities under a mass drone attack. Russian residents complained that Ukrainian hackers allegedly breached the local alert system. On November 23, reports on social media also claimed drones struck a power plant that supplies Moscow with heat and electricity.