A drone attacked the Novoshakhtinsk oil refinery overnight, says Vasily Golubev, the governor of Russia’s Rostov region.
“An unmanned aerial vehicle crashed into the constructions of the inter-workshop flyover of the plant, after which it exploded. The fire that resulted from the explosion was immediately extinguished. Firefighters were not involved in extinguishing the fire, the fire was put out by the local personnel,” he said. Golubev also added no casualties had been recorded, and the attack caused but minor damage.
The Novoshakhtinsk oil refinery is the largest plant of its type in south Russia.
The Ilsky oil refinery in the Krasnodar region also caught fire. Veniamin Kondratyev, the local governor, reported that it had been put out at around 5:30 in the morning local time. He also noted that there were no casualties.
The cause of the fire was not named, however, according to a TASS source in emergency services, it happened as a result of a drone attack. Baza wrote that eyewitnesses heard explosions before the fire started. According to Shot, the tank that caught fire had diesel fuel in it, and another tank was damaged and dented.
Ilsky, the settlement where the oil refinery is located, is just 30 km from regional capital Krasnodar.
Another drone was taken down over the Voronezh region, says local governor Alexander Gusev. “Today, early in the morning, the air defence system detected and successfully destroyed a UAV in the sky over the Voronezh region. There are no casualties or destruction. Nothing threatens the life and health of the locals. The situation is under my personal control,” he wrote.
Russia’s military attacked Ukraine with Iranian Shahed-136/131 drones earlier today. The Ukrainian military states a total of 24 UAVs were launched, and 18 of those were downed. Air raid alert was heard in many Ukrainian regions last night, including the regions of Kyiv, Sumy, Zaporizhzhia, and Odesa. The air raid alert lasted over 3.5 hours in the city of Kyiv.
