Drones attacked oil depot in Russia's Tambov Oblast: storage tank ablaze – photo, video
Maksim Yegorov, Governor of Russia's Tambov Oblast, has reported that drones attacked two districts, and a fire broke out at one oil depot.
Source: Kremlin-aligned Russian news outlet RBC; Russian Telegram channels
Details: A storage tank at the Platonovskaya oil depot in the Rasskazovo municipal district is reportedly on fire. The wreckage of another drone was found in the Pervomaisk municipal district. According to Yegorov, the drone supposedly exploded mid-air, leaving no one injured.
Telegram channel Mash claimed that at least three Ukrainian kamikaze drones attacked the Platonovskaya oil depot.
Дрони атакували нафтобазу в Тамбовській області Росії: горить резервуар. Відео з Telegram-каналу Mash pic.twitter.com/1gqwSMiObu
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Background:
- Earlier, Russian Telegram channels reported that drones had attacked the Afipsky oil refinery in Krasnodar Krai and an oil depot in the Russian republic of Adygea. Later, Murat Kumpilov, Head of the Republic of Adygea, confirmed this information.
- In the morning, Kremlin-aligned Russian news agency RIA Novosti claimed that Russian air defence systems had intercepted and destroyed 15 Ukrainian drones overnight over the Republic of Adygea, Krasnodar Krai, Bryansk, Rostov, Belgorod and Oryol oblasts.
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