Dnipropetrovsk region: missiles destroy oil depot, factory catches fire

OLENA ROSHCHYNA - WEDNESDAY, 6 APRIL 2022, 08:06

Russian missiles have destroyed an oil depot in the Dnipropetrovsk region overnight and set fire to a factory; the fire was extinguished by the morning.

Source: Valentyn Reznichenko, head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional State Administration

According to Reznichenko: "The night was alarming and difficult.

The enemy attacked our region from the air and hit an oil depot and one of the factories. The oil depot and the fuel it contained were destroyed. At the refinery, rescuers are still taming the flames. There is a huge fire there. Fuel is burning."

Details: At 8.15 a.m. Reznichenko confirmed that "the fire at the factory has just been extinguished". Emergency service crews fought the blaze for more than eight hours.

Fortunately, no-one was injured.

Background: In the late evening of 5 April, explosions were heard in the Dnipropetrovsk region, with eyewitnesses reporting explosions in Novomoskovsk.

On the evening of 30 March, a Russian missile hit a factory in Novomoskovsk and another hit an oil depot in Dnipropetrovsk.