After the drone attack: the oil refinery in Tuapse is on fire again
28 April 09:38
A fire broke out again at the Tuapse Oil Refinery following an attack by Ukrainian drones on the night of Monday, April 28. This was reported by Telegram channels and the Krasnodar Krai Emergency Response Headquarters, according to "Komersant Ukrainian".
The fire started due to falling drone debris; there were no casualties.
“122 people and 39 pieces of equipment are involved in the firefighting efforts, including personnel from the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations’ Krasnodar Krai branch,” the headquarters’ post noted.
Meanwhile, the Telegram channel Astra, based on its own OSINT analysis and reports from local residents, suggests that the tank farm of the Tuapse Oil Refinery, located near the ELOU-AVT-12 facility, was attacked.
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Neither Krasnodar Krai Governor Veniamin Kondratyev nor Tuapse Municipal District Head Sergey Boiko has yet reported on the consequences of this attack. Around 1:00 a.m. (Kyiv time), Boiko wrote only about the threat of a drone attack.
According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, on the night of April 28, air defense forces intercepted and destroyed 186 Ukrainian aircraft-type UAVs over the territories of the Astrakhan, Volgograd, Rostov, and Kursk regions, the Krasnodar Krai of the Russian Federation, as well as the annexed Crimea and over the waters of the Black and Azov Seas.
Attacks by Ukrainian UAVs on oil facilities in Tuapse
On previous occasions, Ukrainian UAVs struck oil facilities in Tuapse on the night of April 16 and the night of April 20. The city is home to an offshore oil terminal and an oil refinery.
The Krasnodar Krai Operational Headquarters reported on April 24—four days after the fire began—that the fire at the Tuapse marine terminal, which broke out as a result of the Ukrainian drone attack on the night of April 20, had been contained. One person was killed and another injured in that attack.
It was only on the third day that the operational headquarters acknowledged that “combustion products” were reaching the city. On April 22, they fell along with the rain, creating a “black coating on surfaces.” Residents of several neighborhoods were advised to limit their time outdoors and keep their windows closed. As a result of drone strikes, petroleum products also entered the sea and the Tuapse River.
The first fire, which broke out on the night of April 16, was not extinguished until April 20. The oil terminal forms a single industrial complex with the Tuapse oil refinery.
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