Drones attack an oil refinery in Russia’s Tatarstan — video
Two drones attacked the Yelaznefteprodukt oil refinery in Russia’s Yelabuga, Tatarstan — more than 1,000 km from the Ukrainian border, Mash Telegram channel claimed on April 2.
Explosions occurred in the Alabuga special economic zone, locals alleged.
This is in the Kama Innovative Territorial Production Cluster 10 km from Yelabuga, one of Russia’s largest and most successful special economic industrial production zones.
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Eyewitnesses report seeing two hits and damage to one of the factories and a dormitory.
No casualties were initially claimed.
Attacks on Russian refineries
Ukraine’s SBU security service has successfully attacked at least 12 oil refineries in Russia recently, Reuters reported on March 17, citing a source in the service.
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This figure does not include Main Intelligence Directorate (HUR) operations, which also carries out drone strikes on Russian refineries.
Russia has lost about 600,000 barrels of daily refining capacity because of Ukrainian drone strikes, Gunvor Group Ltd. CEO Torbjörn Törnqvist said.
Ukrainian intelligence and the SBU confirmed involvement in some of these attacks in a comment to NV.
Drones attacked Russia’s Kursk, Belgorod, Tula, Voronezh, Nizhny Novgorod, Bryansk, Leningrad, and Oryol oblasts overnight on March 11-12, as well as Moscow. Explosions were heard near an oil depot in Oryol, causing a fire. A Lukoil oil depot in the Nizhny Novgorod Oblast was also set ablaze.
Drones attacked Russia’s Voronezh, Kursk, Belgorod, Bryansk, Leningrad, and Lipetsk oblasts overnight on March 12-13, as well as an oil refinery in Ryazan, where a serious fire broke out.
Read also: Drone attacks spark fires at two refineries in Russia's Samara Oblast
A fire broke out at two refineries in Russia’s Samara Oblast overnight on March 15-16, which Russian media claimed to have been the result of a drone attack. Another fire was reported following a drone attak on a plant in Russia’s Slaviansk-na-Kubani, Krasnodar Krai on March 16-17.
A drone attacked an oil refinery in Saratov, Russia, on March 23, the Russian Telegram channel Astra claimed. The Kuibyshev plant in Samara caught fire following UAV attack the same day.
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