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Air raid alerts began to ring out over the region of the Oryol region in the early hours of the morning, followed by incoming Ukrainian drones and scores of gunfire from ground artillery of the Russian armed forces in an attempt to intercept them.
However, damage wasn’t completely averted, as reports surfaced soon after from the regional Governor stating that the UAVs were destroyed, but debris fell in some parts, causing damage to private houses and an outbuilding, adding that there was no information about casualties.
At the time of the attack, local residents were taking to social media claiming the city was under a combined attack of drones and missiles, according to Astra.
Reports claimed the local CHP was under attack again, as eyewitnesses captured moments of the explosions, allowing OSINT analysists the chance to pinpoint the recording was taken near Yagodny Lane, around 1.5 kilometres from the Orel CHP.
In the next video, previously published by Astra and shot from Andrianov Street, the distance from the filming location to the CHP was about 1.2km.
Less than a kilometre from the Orel CHP was the defence enterprise Oreltelmash, which produces mobile technical maintenance, repair, and evacuation equipment for the military.
Orel was already attacked on the night of October 31, when the Ukrainian Navy stated the strikes were carried out by Neptune missiles, in which the first strike hit the open switchgear of the CHP, the open part of the electrical substation or power unit where reception, distribution, and transmission of electricity from the station’s generators to power lines takes place, after which the city lost power.
Emergency Ministry staff and security were working on all sites and channels began publishing videos of Russian air defences attempting to shoot down the drones.
This morning an update from the Ministry of Defence said that two drones had been shot down in total over Oryol.
