Oil depot on fire in Russia's Rostov Oblast after drone attack – photo, video

Reports have claimed that a large-scale drone attack has taken place in Russia's Rostov Oblast, with social media reporting a fire at an oil depot on the outskirts of Kamensk-Shakhtinsky.

Source: ​Rostov Oblast Governor Yuri Slyusar; Russian Telegram channels

Details: Slyusar claimed that Rostov Oblast was attacked by 30 drones. 

He said these drones were destroyed and suppressed in the oblast’s northwest.

Meanwhile, Russian social media reports indicated a fire had broken out at an oil depot near the city of Kamensk-Shakhtinsky.

The reports specified that the depot belongs to Atlas, an oil storage facility previously targeted by Ukrainian drones during the summer.

Updated: Later, Slyusar confirmed a "huge fire at an industrial facility in the Kamensk district."

For reference: The Atlas plant of the Russian Federal Agency for State Reserves in the Southern Federal District specialises in the supply of petroleum products to the Russian Armed Forces.

Russian media reports indicated that in August 2020, the plant hosted joint exercises by the Russian Ministry of Defence and Rosrezerv as part of the Caucasus 2020 exercise.

The demonstration exercises on the supply of petroleum products for the needs of the army involved three methods – road, rail and pipeline.

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