Major airfield near St. Petersburg catches fire

The airfield in Gostilitsy near Russia’s Saint Petersburg has caught fire, RBC cites the Emergency Ministry.

The fire was reported around 7 a.m. local time. Scrap tires were on fire; it has already been extinguished, no people were injured.

Mash Saint Petersburg reported the fire earlier, mentioning that helicopters were evacuated from the airfield hangars.

The locality of Gostilitsy is home to the largest airfield in Russia’s Northwestern Federal District that accommodates over 100 aircraft, both in hangars and in open air.

A reservoir with oil products inside caught fire in the locality of Volna, Russia’s Krasnodar region, this morning.

A drone attack on Sevastopol, the largest city in Crimea, set fire to an oil reservoir on 29 April, according to local governor Razvozhaev. This was caused by an attack of two drones. The explosion destroyed more than 10 tanks with oil products with a total capacity of about 40,000 tons, intended for the needs of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet, RBC-Ukraine reported, citing Andriy Yusov, a representative of the main intelligence department at the Ukrainian Defence Ministry.

Yusov referred to the incident as “divine retribution” for the Russian missile strike against a residential block in Uman that killed 23 civilians.