Friday, October 4, 2024, 1:47 p.m.
Two oil depots caught fire in Russia overnight from Thursday to Friday, one in the Voronezh region and the other in Perm. According to the governor of Voronezh, Alexander Gusev, the first tank burned down in the town of Anna and “firefighters are on the ground. “There have been no victims.” Shortly after, he added that the flames had been extinguished. The unmanned aerial devices fired by Ukraine, Gusev added, “were neutralized with electronic warfare systems, but one of them fell on the plant, on top of an empty tanker.”
The General Staff of the Ukrainian army confirmed the information from the Russian governor, noting that “tonight an attack was carried out against the Annanefteprodukt warehouses, near the village of Anna. Air defense activity was recorded in the area of the installation and a hit was confirmed on at least one of the vertical tanks. A fire started. “The damage caused is being clarified.”
A fire has also been reported at an oil facility of the Lukoil company in the Russian region of Perm. The Ministry for Emergency Situations (MChS, Civil Protection) points out in a statement that “in the industrial zone of the town of Osentsi, a storage plant for petroleum products is on fire. The fire, which spreads over an area of 20,000 square meters, has destroyed the fuel containers. The ministry assures that “the firefighters did not allow the fire to spread to residential and administrative buildings and to dry vegetation. More than 60 people and 19 vehicles participated in its extinction. Osentsi is located south of the city of Perm, near the Bolshoye Sávino airport, in an area within range of Ukrainian drones, although no one has yet confirmed that the cause of the incident was a bombing, something that some assume for certain. Telegram channels, where videos of the flames in the damaged plants, both in Perm and Voronezh, are being broadcast.
Shot down
The Russian Ministry of Defense reports in its morning report that the anti-aircraft defense shot down a total of 18 Ukrainian drones overnight over the regions of Belgorod, Voronezh, Rostov-on-Don and the Sea of Azov, but says nothing about what happened in Perm.
Since the beginning of 2024, Ukrainian drones have periodically attacked Russian refineries and fuel depots in different regions, according to the BBC, a total of 64 times since January. The most devastating attacks occurred, in August, against the plant in the Proletarski district, in the Rostov-on-Don region, where they could not put out the fire for more than two weeks, and, in early September, against the refinery of Kapótniya fuel station, the most important in Moscow and one of the largest in the country.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has been warning that such bombings are a response to attacks by Russian troops against energy facilities in Ukraine. This Friday, precisely, the Ukrainian Air Force reported a Russian attack overnight with 19 drones against the country’s “critical infrastructure.” According to the report, the anti-aircraft defenses “shot down nine drones, and seven more were probably affected by electronic interference,” the report states without clarifying what happened to the other three Russian unmanned devices.
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