Oil storage tank catches fire in Russia’s Kursk region following drone attack

A drone has attacked an airfield located in the Kursk region of Russia, an oil storage tank has caught fire, the regional governor Roman Starovoyt says in a Telegram post.

“Following a drone attack in the area of the Kursk airfield, an oil storage tank has caught fire. No one was hurt. The fire is being put out. All the maintenance crews are operating on site,” he wrote.

Yesterday, 5 December, a drone attacked the Engels airfield in Russia’s Saratov region; furthermore, a fuel truck caught fire at the Dyagilevo airfield near Russia’s Ryazan as a result of an explosion following another drone attack. The Russian Ministry of Defence said that the attack by Ukraine’s drones had killed three servicemen and injured four. 

According to the Russian ministry, air defence forces intercepted the Ukrainian UAVs as they were flying at a low altitude. The crash and explosion of the wreckage on the Russian airfields caused minor damage to the hull armour of the two aeroplanes, the agency says. In response, Russia’s Defence Ministry struck “the command and control system and related defence complex facilities, communication hubs, power plants, and military units of Ukraine”.