Oil depot in Russia's Krasnodar Krai catches fire following drone attack – video

A tank containing residues of oil products is reported to have caught fire in the southern Russian region of Krasnodar Krai as a result of a drone attack.

Source: Veniamin Kondratiev, Governor of Krasnodar Krai, on Telegram

Quote from Kondratiev: "In the settlement of Novominskaya, Kanevskaya district, UAV wreckage fell on a tank containing a small amount of oil product residue. A fire broke out and was assigned the second level of complexity."

Details: According to the governor, 55 firefighters and 19 appliances extinguished the fire in the oil residue tank.

Astra reported that the oil depot belonged to Albashneft LLC, and that as of 06:15 Moscow time the fire had not yet been put out.

For reference: According to the company's website, Albashneft is a "dynamically developing company whose principal activity is the production of petroleum products". It is "the only oil refinery near the Kanevskaya district of Krasnodar Krai".

Background: Russia’s Ministry of Defence claimed that on 11 January, the Ukrainian military launched a drone attack on the Russkaya compressor station in the village of Gaikodzor in Krasnodar Krai. The station supplies gas to European countries via the TurkStream pipeline.

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