‘Oil Is Literally Falling From the Sky’: Russian Town Fears Environmental Disaster After Ukrainian Drone Strikes on Refinery
The third attack in a month caused heavy smoke and an oil spill, and officials said residents near the refinery began evacuating.
- On Tuesday, April 28, Ukrainian drone forces conducted their third attack in two weeks on the Rosneft-owned Tuapse Refinery in Krasnodar Krai, triggering massive fires and forcing the facility to shut down operations.
- This refinery produces about 240,000 barrels of oil products daily; it has remained offline since the initial April 16 strike, making it impossible to ship oil from the site.
- Geolocated satellite footage from April 28 shows smoke plumes and fires at the depot, while residents reported burning oil flowing down Koshkina Street, which the Russian service Astra confirmed involved fuel leaking from storage tanks.
- Local authorities have begun evacuating residents living near the refinery, while Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov declined to provide details, claiming that "any information about sites hit as a result of strikes by the Kyiv regime is classified."
- Attacks have intensified local discontent, exacerbated by random internet blackouts and government-enforced app restrictions, as frustrated residents have flooded social media with complaints and Google searches for "how to leave Russia" have spiked.
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Boiling oil flowed into the streets of Tuapse this week. A Ukrainian drone strike on 28 April, the third in less than two weeks, reignited fires that had been burning since 16 April at one of Russia's top ten refineries, the only major facility on its Black Sea coast. Krasnodar Krai Governor Veniamin Kondratyev ordered the evacuation of residents in the area. More than 300 emergency personnel were deployed. Black rain has been falling on the cit…
‘Oil is literally falling from the sky’: Russian town fears environmental disaster after Ukrainian drone strikes on refinery
Volunteers try to clean up oil pollution after Ukrainian strikes on a refinery in the Russian Black Sea town of Tuapse, a key oil-processing and export hub.
Burning Oil Flowed Through Russian Streets Like Lava From a Volcano After Ukraine’s Third Drone Strike on the Tuapse Refinery
Ukraine's drone forces conducted a third strike in two weeks on Russia's Tuapse Refinery in Krasnodar Krai on April 28. Eyewitness video footage shows burning oil flowing through nearby Russian streets "like lava from a volcano." The Rosneft-owned facility produces 240,000 barrels per day of petroleum products and has been offline since April 16.
It was the third Ukrainian attack on Tuapse in two weeks.
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