A fire broke out early Sunday at an oil depot in Russia’s Black Sea resort city of Sochi after a Ukrainian drone attack, the regional emergency response headquarters said.
The agency said that one fuel tank containing 2,000 cubic meters of petroleum products was engulfed in flames.
Sochi Mayor Andrei Proshunin confirmed the incident on social media, saying that emergency services were actively working at the site.
“In the Adler district, drone debris fell into a tank with oil products, causing a fire.
Firefighting efforts are already underway. A total of 127 personnel and 35 pieces of equipment are on the scene,” he said.
A Ukrainian drone attack caused a fire at an oil storage facility in Sochi, Russia, early Sunday, according to regional Governor Veniamin Kondratyev on the Telegram messaging platform.
Over 120 firefighters were deployed to battle the blaze.
The fire broke out in a 2,000-cubic-metre (approximately 70,000 cubic feet) fuel tank, located in Russia’s Krasnodar region along the Black Sea, as reported by the RIA news agency citing emergency services.
Russia’s Ministry of Defence stated in its daily Telegram update that air defense systems intercepted 93 Ukrainian drones overnight, including one in the Krasnodar area and 60 over the Black Sea.
The ministry typically only reports the number of drones shot down, not the total number launched by Ukraine.
Reuters was unable to independently verify the details of these events, and there has been no immediate response from Ukrainian officials.
Governor Kondratyev said the incident took place in Sochi’s Adler district, a coastal area.
The strike marks another Ukrainian attempt to damage infrastructure within Russian territory—targets Kyiv views as critical to Moscow’s war capabilities.
Last month, a drone strike in the same Adler district killed a woman, though attacks on Sochi—host of the 2014 Winter Olympics—have been relatively rare since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022.
Separately on Sunday, the governor of Russia’s Voronezh region said four people were wounded in another Ukrainian drone attack that caused multiple fires.
Russian forces carried out a missile strike on Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, according to the city’s military administration.
