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Volgograd region Governor Andrei Bocharov (https://t.me/rgn_34/12294)  said  a “mass” drone attack targeted “industrial infrastructure” and damaged an apartment building, injuring one person.  The exiled outlet Astra (https://t.me/astrapress/126893?single)  reported  that eyewitness footage showed a large glow from a fire in Volgograd's Krasnoarmeiskyi district, home to both the Volgograd oil refinery — Lukoil’s largest in southern Russia — and the Kaustik chemical plant.   Authorities in the Krasnodar region (https://t.me/opershtab23/17213)  said  an “enterprise” was slightly damaged by drone debris in the Black Sea town of Tuapse, which hosts an oil refinery and port facilities that include a grain terminal.  Russia’s Defense Ministry said its air defense systems intercepted 646 Ukrainian drones overnight across Russia.  President Vladimir Putin recently admitted that Ukrainian refinery attacks have inflicted costs equivalent to 1% of Russia’s GDP.  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