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Drone attack set oil facility ablaze in Russia-Russia State media

State-run news outlet Tass said early on Thursday that a fire started in the reservoir of Russia‘s Ilsky oil refinery in the country’s southwest Krasnodar region.

Tass said that a drone strike was what started the fire, citing emergency services.

According to emergency services, a gasoline tank at the Ilsky Oil Refinery in the urban-style hamlet of Ilsky in the Seversky district caught fire because of an attack by an unidentified drone. Firefighters have been sent to the scene, Tass said.

There were no casualties, according to Krasnodar Gov. Veniamin Kondratiev, who said in a Telegram post that residents are no longer in danger.

“It’s been a second turbulent night in a row for our emergency services. A tank of petroleum products at the Ilsky Oil Refinery in the Seversky District has now been confirmed to be on fire. Fire brigades and MES staff of 48 people and 16 vehicles are already at work,” he said.

It comes after Russian state media on Wednesday said a drone strike ignited a fire that engulfed an oil storage facility in the port of Volna in Krasnodar.

Videos published on social media and geolocated by CNN show the oil storage tanks burning.

That facility is close to the Kerch bridge that was set ablaze by Ukrainian forces in October 2022. It is unclear how the fuel storage tank caught fire and Ukraine has not commented on the incident.

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