An oil refinery in Russia after a drone attack, according to the authorities
An oil refinery caught fire on Sunday in the Raïon of Adler, in Sochi, after a Ukrainian drone attack, the authorities reported.
“A fuel tank caught fire in an oil depot in the Raïon de Adler. The debris again touched the buildings of a garages cooperative on Aviatsionnaya ”announced the mayor of Sochi, Andreï Proshunine, on Telegram, assuring that the fire has made “no victim” at this stage.
The governor of Krai of Krasnodar, Veniamin Kondratiev, for his part specified that “The debris of a drone hit a reservoir of petroleum products, which caused a fire.” “The consequences of the fire have already been mastered”, he writes, adding that 127 firefighters worked to turn off the fire.
The operational headquarters of the Krasnodar territory reported that a 2,000 cubic meter reservoir of petroleum products were burning in the deposit.
Air traffic was interrupted at Sochi airport, before resuming a little later, according to the Russian Air Transport Regulation Agency, Rosaviatsia.