A fire broke out on Saturday at an oil refinery in Russia's Samara region following a drone attack, the regional governor said.
This handout satellite image released on February 24, 2024, by Maxar Technologies shows a color infrared closeup view of an oil refinery on fire, in Klintsy, on January 19, 2024.MOSCOW – A fire broke out on Saturday at an oil refinery in Russia's Samara region following a drone attack, the regional governor said.
One of those attacks caused a fire at the Kuibyshev oil refinery, he added, noting that there were no casualties. A drone attack on another refinery in Samara, Novokuibyshevsk, "was repelled without damaging the technological equipment", according to Azarov. Separately, the Russian defence ministry said in a press release that it had neutralised overnight "12 Ukrainian drones" over the regions of Bryansk, Belgorod and Voronezh, all three of which border Ukraine, as well as over the region of Saratov.