07:58, 22 August 2026

The forest caught fire in the Sholokhovsky district during a drone attack.

Downed UAV. Illustration created by "Caucasian Knot" using AI in the Copilot program.

As a result of the drone debris falling in the Sholokhovsky district of the Rostov region, a forest caught fire.

According to the governor of the Rostov region Yuri Slyusary, last night drones attacked the city of Kamensk-Shakhtinsky, as well as the Azov, Verkhne-Donskoy, Kamensky, Krasnosulinsky, Kasharsky, Millerovsky, Tarasovsky, Chertkovsky, and Sholokhovsky districts.

The air defense forces neutralized 140 drones, the governor specified. "There were consequences on the ground. In the Sholokhovsky district, as a result of the UAV debris falling, a forest fire occurred over an area of 1 hectare. There are no casualties. There is no threat to populated areas. Efforts are underway to localize the fire," he wrote on his Telegram channel.

"Caucasian Knot" also reported that the Rostov region is regularly subjected to drone attacks. Thus, on August 16, during a drone attack in the region, five people died, and another was injured. On August 15, about a thousand residents of seven hamlets in the Millerovsky district were left without electricity after power lines were damaged as a result of a drone attack.

Translated automatically via OpenAI from https://www.kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/425986