A fire broke out at the Rosneft refinery in Tuapse, Krasnodar Territory, on the night of February 28. Eyewitnesses reported about the explosion, their words are quoted by local Telegram channels, including the channel "State of emergency of Krasnodar and the region." The city administration reports that a farm building on the territory of the oil depot caught fire, by three in the morning the fire was extinguished. According to local authorities, there was no oil spill and no one was hurt.
Telegram channels Baza, Astra and Shot claim that two drones attacked the tank farm.
According to Baza, the explosions occurred around 2 a.m., when two drones filled with explosives damaged a boiler building next to an oil storage facility. The heat supply system of the canteen was damaged, two funnels one and a half meters deep were formed.
Astra also claims that the tank farm was attacked by two UAVs. According to the source of the publication, there is a barracks with Russian military personnel 30 meters from the scene of the incident (there is no official information about this). Upon the fact of the explosion, the head of the Ayryumovsky rural settlement, Oleg Kovalenko, who heard the explosion, contacted the emergency services of the region, ASTRA sources say .
Telegram channel Shot claims , citing a source, that two UAVs exploded a hundred meters from the oil storage.
This is not the first fire at Russian oil depots since the beginning of the war in Ukraine. In November 2022, in the Oryol region, a drone blew up the oil depot of Transneft, which is located more than 170 km from the border with Ukraine. On April 1, a strong fire broke out at the oil depot of Rosneft in Belgorod, the governor of the region, Vyacheslav Gladkov, then claimed that the Ukrainian Armed Forces were behind the fire. At first, he stated that two employees of the base were injured and nothing threatened their lives, later he clarified that there were no victims. Later, on April 25, a fire broke out at the Transneft-Druzhba oil depot in Bryansk.