Fire erupts at Russian oil terminal following Ukrainian drone attack, injuring 2 people: report

Fire erupts at Russian oil terminal following Ukrainian drone attack, injuring 2 people: report


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A Ukrainian drone attack caused a fire at another Russian oil terminal overnight, local officials in Russia’s Krasnodar region said Saturday, in what appeared to be the latest attack on Moscow’s vital oil industry.

Authorities in the city of Novorossiysk said falling drone debris sparked a fire at an oil terminal, injuring two people.

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Russia’s Astra news outlet said Ukrainian drones struck the Sheskharis oil terminal and depot, the terminus for Russian state-controlled pipeline company Transneft’s main oil pipelines in the region.

A destroyed building of the Starobilsk College of Luhansk Pedagogical University is pictured following an overnight attack in the town of Starobilsk (Starobelsk) in the Luhansk region, a Russian-controlled area of Ukraine, on May 22, 2026.  REUTERS
Farmers collect fragments of a Russian missile that hit an agricultural field near the front line in the Kharkiv region, Ukraine, on May 22, 2026.  AP Photo/Andrii Marienko
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