Ukrainian drone attack sparks oil fire in south Russia
- Kyiv has repeatedly targeted oil and gas facilities in Russia since the conflict began in 2022, in what it has called ‘fair’ retaliation
Ukrainian drones attacked an oil storage facility in Russia’s southern Rostov region early Sunday morning, sparking a large fuel fire, the local governor said.
Videos published on social media showed thick black smoke and bursts of flames coming from the site of the blaze, which the governor said was in the town of Proletarsk.
“In the southeast of the Rostov region, air defences repelled a drone attack. As a result of falling debris on the territory of industrial storage facilities in Proletarsk, a diesel fuel fire broke out,” Governor Vasily Golubev said on Telegram.
“At 05:35 (0235 GMT), firefighting at the industrial facility in Proletarsk was suspended due to a second drone attack,” he added in an update to the post.
No one was injured and firefighting efforts resumed shortly after, he said in a later post.
The Ukrainian army said it had attacked the “Kavkaz” oil and petroleum storage facility in the Rostov region.