MOSCOW: A fire broke out early on Wednesday at the Afipsky oil refinery in Russia’s Krasnodar territory preliminary due to a drone crash, Governor Veniamin Kondratyev said, reported Sputnik.
“There is a fire on the territory of the Afipsky oil refinery in the Seversky district. One of the installations for crude oil distillation is on fire. The preliminary cause is a UAV [unmanned aerial vehicle] hit. The fire has already been localised in an area of 100 square metres. There are no casualties,“ the governor said on Telegram.
The plant’s fire brigades, as well as firefighters of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations and emergency services, were working at the site to quickly extinguish the fire, Kondratyev said, adding that the fire had already been extinguished. -Bernama
