In the village of Volna, Krasnodar Territory, on the night of May 3, a tank with petroleum products caught fire. According to preliminary data, there were no deaths or injuries. This was announced on his Telegram channel by the governor of the region Veniamin Kondratiev. According to TASS, citing the emergency services, the cause of the fire was “the fall of a drone”.
As can be seen from these maps, the port of Taman and the storage facility of Tamanneftegaz are located near the village. According to RBC, the Taman transshipment complex for petroleum and petroleum products is also located there.
Fire was assigned the highest difficulty level. Temryuk district chief Fedor Babenkov said the area of the fire was 1,200 square meters. Five firefighters were called to put out the fire.
According to the Baza telegram channel, the probable cause of the fire is a drone attack. Shortly before the fire, eyewitnesses heard an explosion, sayJ editing. A VKontakte user writes that the flames are visible in Kerch on the Crimean coast.
On the night of April 29, a fire broke out in an oil depot in Sevastopol, annexed by Russia. Radio Liberty released satellite images of an oil storage facility that was allegedly attacked by a Ukrainian drone. Photographs show that 8 to 10 fuel tanks for the Russian Black Sea Fleet were damaged as a result of the impact. The Ukrainian Armed Forces called the attack one of the preparations for a counter-offensive.
On Wednesday evening, several regions of Ukraine, including the Kyiv region, suffered a new drone attack. At least three of them attacked an oil depot in the town of Kropivnitsky in the Kirovohrad region. There was a fire there. There are no casualties, said Andrei Raikovich, head of the regional military administration.
The Ukrainian Air Force claims to have shot down 21 of the 26 Shahed Russian suicide bombers of Iranian origin.
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