Satellite data indicates fire at Russian airfieldpublished at 11:54 GMT

11:54 GMT

Fridon Kiria and Yi Ma
BBC Monitoring and BBC Verify

We’re looking into the impact of Ukrainian drone and missile attacks in southern Russia overnight.

The Ukrainian military’s general staff confirmed in a post on Telegram that it attacked a number of locations in Russia including an airfield at Taganrog in the Rostov region.

Rostov’s governor Yury Slyusar says three people have been killed in Taganrog and eight others injured. He also reports damage to businesses and residential buildings in the city, but makes no mention of hits on military infrastructure.

The Ministry of Defence in Moscow said its air defences had intercepted 249 drones.

Images from Nasa’s Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS), which uses satellite data to detect active fires and thermal anomalies, shows heat signatures at the Taganrog airfield in the past 24 hours.

These signatures are not visible in the two weeks leading up to 23 November, which suggests they are unlikely to be part of routine activity.

A screengrab from Nasa’s Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS), an open-source platform that uses satellite data to detect and show active fires and thermal anomalies, shows two significant heat signatures at the Taganrog airfield within the past 24 hours.Image source, Nasa FIRMS