Ukrainian drone attack triggers fire in oil warehouse in Russia

Ukrainian drone attack triggers fire in oil warehouse in Russia

More than 120 firefighters were used early Sunday morning in the Russian Sochi to extinguish a fire in an oil camp that was triggered by a Ukrainian drone attack, the regional governor Weniamin Kondratjev reported on the Telegram messaging service.

Details of the fire in the oil camp

In the Krasnodar region on the Black Sea, where Sochi is located, a tank with a capacity of 2,000 cubic meters (70,000 cubic feet) burned, as the Russian news agency Ria reported on emergency services.

Russian air defense measures

The Russian Ministry of Defense announced in its daily morning report on Telegram that the air defense units had destroyed 93 Ukrainian drones on night, including one above the Krasnodar region and 60 over the waters of the Black Sea. However, the ministry only reports how many drones were destroyed by their units and not how many Ukraine started.

Sochi Airport temporarily closed

The Russian civil aviation authority Rosaviatsia temporarily stopped air traffic at Sochi Airport to ensure air safety before it announced on Telegram that the flights were resumed on Sunday (10:00 p.m. ET, Saturday).

repeated attacks on strategic infrastructure

The attack that Kondratjev described in the district of the coastal town is the youngest in a series of Ukrainian attacks on infrastructure goals within Russia, which Kiev sees as crucial for the war effort Moscow. At the end of the last month, a woman in the Adler district was killed in a Ukrainian drone attack, while attacks on Sochi, which organized the Winter Olympics in 2014, were rather rare in the course of the war that had been going on since February 2022.

strategic importance of the Krasnodar region

The Krasnodar region houses the Ilsky Raffinerie near the city of Krasnodar, one of the largest in southern Russia and frequent destination of Ukrainian drone attacks.

additional incidents in the region

On Sunday, the governor of the Woronech region in the south of Russia also reported that four people were injured in a Ukrainian drone attack, who triggered several fires, while Russia initiated a rocket attack on Kiev, according to the Military Administration of the Ukrainian capital. The Russian Ministry of Defense reported that its units destroyed 18 Ukrainian drones above the Woronech region that borders on Ukraine.