MOSCOW (Reuters) – Oil tanks at a storage site in the western Russian town of Klintsy in the Bryansk region caught fire following a Ukrainian drone attack, the Ministry of Defense said on Friday. governor of the region, Alexandre Bogomaz.
Two more Ukrainian drones were shot down over the Bryansk region, he added.
According to the Russian news agency TASS, the fire covers an area of approximately 1,000 square meters. There were no injuries, declared Alexandre Bogomaz.
Authorities in the Bryansk region, which borders Ukraine, regularly report drone attacks by the Ukrainian army.
A Ukrainian military source told Reuters on Thursday that Ukraine carried out a successful drone attack targeting a Russian oil terminal near St. Petersburg.
Russian emergency services cited by the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper reported another fire on Friday at Russia’s third largest refinery, in Ryazan, south of Moscow. The fire was extinguished and there were no injuries, the RIA news agency reported.
(Reuters offices, Blandine Hénault for the French version, edited by Tangi Salaün and Sophie Louet)
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