Two more drone attacks have been carried out on fuel depots in Russia today. Russian Telegram channels report this. The drones struck in Ilsky (200 kilometers from the Crimean bridge) and in Novosjachtinsk (20 kilometers from the border with the Donbas). In the past six days, at least 4 depots have already gone up in flames and 2 fuel trains have been derailed by explosions.
KVDS, ADN
Latest update:
04-05-23, 19:38
Source:
Kyiv Post, Reuters, GeoConfirmed, Center for Information Resilience
The first attack dates from Saturday 29 April. Then a fuel tank was hit in the port city of Sevastopol, on the Crimea peninsula annexed by Russia. According to Ukrainian military intelligence, at least ten oil tanks have been destroyed in an area of about 1,000 square meters.
Governor Mikhail Razvozhayev immediately pointed the finger at Ukraine. Kiev denied the drone attack, but a day later the spokeswoman for the Ukrainian troops in the south let slip that the attack was part of the preparations for the announced Ukrainian counter-offensive.
LOOK. Fuel tank in Crimea explodes after ‘drone attack’
Today, a new drone attack near a Russian air base in the city was repelled. Razvozhayev spoke of “another attack against Sevastopol”, the home port of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet. According to the governor, no sites were hit and the situation is under control.
The second successful attack took place yesterday morning and hit a depot on Russian territory, near the important Crimean bridge. According to Russian official Veniamin Kondratiev, a tank containing oil products caught fire in the village of Volna in Temryuksky district. Footage shows flames rising behind a large tank.
Today it was at least twice more. In Ilsky, a drone struck an oil refinery in Ilsky, one of the largest in southern Russia. Hereby third attack an oil product storage facility caught fire. Emergency services managed to extinguish the fire in about two hours, according to the Russian state news agency TASS. The refinery was able to continue working normally without much hindrance, she reported herself.
Russian Telegram channels also reported today a drone attack on an oil refinery in Novosjachtinsk, near the border with Ukraine. This fourth attack is the only one not yet verified with geolocation.
There is also one possible fifth attack at a fuel depot in Stavropol, between Ukraine and Georgia. There is no official information yet on the cause of the fire.
In addition, were also two Russian trains endorsed. One of the two trains derailed on Monday and caught fire after an explosion on the tracks between Bryansk and Unesha, not far from the border with Ukraine.
A day later, another Russian freight train derailed just outside Bryansk after an explosion. There were no casualties anywhere, according to local authorities.
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