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Russia has declared a drone attack threat across the Lipetsk region, regional Governor Igor Artamonov said, state media reported on June 27.
The alert points to the continued reach of Ukraine's long-range drone campaign, which has increasingly targeted Russian energy and defence sites, with Lipetsk home to an air base and industrial facilities hit in earlier waves. Artamonov warned of a UAV attack threat throughout the region.
The regional emergencies ministry separately declared a yellow-level air hazard for the Lipetsk region, its press service said.
No strike had been confirmed and Ukraine had not commented on any attack on the region on June 27.
Lipetsk, a strategically important region whose air base is a chief training centre for Russia's Aerospace Forces, has been targeted repeatedly during the war, including drone strikes on oil depots in the Usman district in January and an attack on the Lipetsk airfield in 2025.
The city of Lipetsk is roughly 350-400 km from the nearest Ukrainian territory, measuring east from the border around Ukraine's Sumy/Kharkiv regions.
The wider Lipetsk region extends somewhat closer on its western edge, but the regional capital and the air base are in that 350-400 km band.
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