Videos posted on Russian social media showed flames rising from apartment blocks and from the 25-storeyGalereya Chizhova business centre, with thick black smoke drifting over neighbouring districts. Other footage showed burning private homes, a damaged commercial building, residential blocks with blown-out windows and** at least ten cars ablazein a car park. Residents picked through the wreckage, where drone engine fragments** were found.
Alexander Gusev, the governor, said air defences** brought down 113 dronesover the region, more than 70 of them directly above the city. Russia's defence ministry claimed 290 across the country**.
Debris also started fires at several industrial plants— local reports named the** Voronezhsintezkauchuk rubber worksand the VASO aircraft factory**— as well as two dacha settlements, a school sports ground, a garage cooperative and an apartment building. The** Novovoronezh nuclear plantsaid it was operating normally**.
Most of the injured were aboard the Anapa–Moscow train when debris struck nearSomovo station, Russian Railways said.** Five passengers were hurt**, two seriously, and** rail traffic through the city was suspended**. Gusev confirmed** three people were killed**.
Kyiv has not commented. Independent monitors could not establish whether the explosions beside apartment blocks were** direct hits or falling debris**, a distinction the governor's account leaves open. A strike on Voronezh three days earlier hit the** Baltimor military airfield**.