An oil refinery was targeted by a drone on Wednesday in Ryazan, about 200 km southeast of Moscow, an attack that left people injured and caused a fire, the regional governor said.
“The Ryazan oil refinery was attacked by a drone (...).
According to initial information, there are injured
,” Governor Pavel Malkov wrote on Telegram.
According to him, following the attack,
“a fire broke out”
in this refinery, one of the largest producers of fuel for central Russia and controlled by the oil giant Rosneft.
“All emergency services are operating on the scene
,” added Pavel Malkov, specifying that he had gone there himself.
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Energy targets regularly hit
Another drone was shot down on Wednesday approaching an oil refinery in the Leningrad region, near Saint Petersburg (northwest), regional governor Alexander Drozdenko said on Telegram, stressing that the attack
“did not cause any casualties or damage”
.
Russian energy sites are attacked by drones for the second day in a row.
On Tuesday, an oil refinery targeted by a Ukrainian drone caught fire in the Kstovo industrial zone in the Nizhny Novgorod region, 800 km from the border with Ukraine.
Another fire broke out on Tuesday at a fuel complex in the Oryol region, about 160 km from the Ukrainian border, also after a drone attack.
Since last summer, the Ukrainian army has increased drone attacks against Russia, striking further and further into Russian territory.
Although most of the devices are shot down, targets, particularly energy and industrial, are regularly hit.