Air Raid Alerts Reach 2,000 km Inside Russia for First Time in Overnight Surge

Russia issued an air raid alert more than 2,000 kilometers from Ukraine’s border for the first time overnight on May 5, as warnings were reported across at least 18 regions, signaling the expanding geographic reach of perceived threats deep inside the country.

According to the Russian Telegram channel Astra on May 5, the alert was declared in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug—Yugra, marking the first instance of a missile warning at such a distance from Ukraine. The regional governor, Ruslan Kukharuk, confirmed the introduction of a “missile danger” regime.

Astra reported that residents in several areas did not hear sirens, while mobile alerts were inconsistently delivered, with some users reporting they never received SMS warnings.

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The same source stated that air raid warnings were simultaneously active in at least 18 regions across Russia. Flight restrictions were introduced at 18 airports, including in Kazan, Samara, Ufa, Nizhny Novgorod, and Perm, affecting both arrivals and departures during the night.

Missile-related alerts also extended to at least 16 additional regions, including Astrakhan, Bryansk, Kaluga, Kurgan, Orenburg, Sverdlovsk, and Tula regions, as well as republics such as Tatarstan, Bashkortostan, and Udmurtia, according to Astra.

Explosions were reported in the city of Cheboksary in Russia’s Chuvash Republic. According to Astra, video footage from local residents suggests a strike may have hit the defense-linked enterprise “VNIIR-Progress.”

Ukraine’s General Staff previously stated that the facility produces satellite navigation components, including GNSS receivers and antennas used in GLONASS, GPS, and Galileo systems, as well as modules reportedly integrated into Shahed-type drones and Russian missile systems such as Iskander-M and Kalibr.

Separately, a fire was reported in an industrial zone in the city of Kirishi in Russia’s Leningrad region. Regional governor Alexander Drozdenko confirmed the incident, while social media reports cited by Astra suggested a possible strike targeting the KINEF oil refinery—one of the largest refining facilities in Russia, producing fuel and petrochemical products.

Earlier, Ukrainian long-range drone strikes on Russian oil infrastructure were estimated to have caused at least $7 billion in losses since January, according to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, with attacks intensifying in April and targeting refineries, pipelines, and export terminals, reducing processing volumes to their lowest level in over a decade.

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