According to the Baza Telegram channel, a self-made drone with explosives allegedly launched from Volchansk, Ukraine attacked the Gazenergoseti gas station in Belgorod.
“Probably the drone was launched from the city of Volchansk in the Kharkiv region,” the publication says.
Fragments of an explosive device damaged an empty gas tank with a capacity of 30 thousand liters. The gas pipeline itself was also damaged. There was no loss of life as a result of the incident. Regional officials and emergency services did not comment on the situation.
The distance from Volchansk to the border of the Russian Federation is 6.5 km. From Volchansk to Belgorod – about 42 km.
On September 10, 2022, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced that it has decided to regroup troops in the region of the cities of Izyum and Balakliya in the Kharkiv region to increase efforts in the Donetsk direction. targets of a special military operation.” Also, Russian troops left Volchansk.
drone events
The day before, a crashed drone made of wood and foam was found in New Moscow, near the village of Svitino, 20 km from Podolsk. The drone was painted in the colors of the Ukrainian flag and the slogan “Victory to Ukraine” was drawn on its wing. The drone was found by a local resident.
On the night of February 28, a fire broke out on the territory of the oil depot in Tuapse, the city government reported. Telegram channels Baza and Shot claimed that two drones attacked the tank farm. According to an RIA Novosti source in the emergency services, a drone was spotted in the oil depot area.
Responding to the question of whether the drone was seen in the tank farm area, the source of RIA Novosti said, “It was there, but it didn’t get anywhere.”
A source told Shot that explosive-laden drones exploded 100 meters from the oil storage facility, damaging the boiler building and causing a fire in the annex. Baza also writes that drones damaged the boiler room building, which in turn damaged the heating system of the canteen.
“Two craters with a depth of one and a half meters remained after the eruption,” explains the publication.
The press service of the Ministry of Emergencies of the Krasnodar Territory said that oil tanks were not affected, oil products were not spilled, no one was injured.
Eyewitnesses told local publication 93.ru that at night they heard “sounds similar to explosions” in the area of u200bu200bthe tank farm. There were also reports of heavy smoke and glow coming out of the facility.
“There were two explosions, about five seconds apart. But I can’t even say that these were explosions because there was no wave for the glass to shake, ”said he.
Governor Andrei Vorobyov said on his Telegram channel that on February 28, a UJ-22 Airborne attack aircraft crashed near the village of Gubastovo, near Kolomna, near Moscow, that its target may be a civilian infrastructure facility.
Gubastovo at the Voskresensk gas compressor station near RBC approved UAV accident. There was no damage, loss of life or fire,” they said.
Also, on the night of February 28, a drone was found in the village of Novy Giaginsky, which belongs to the Novy Giaginsky district of Adygea, about 180 km from Tuapse. No one was injured when the object fell, the construction of an animal farm was partially destroyed.
The Russian Ministry of Defense later said that Ukrainian drones tried to attack objects in Adygea and the Krasnodar Territory at night, but were suppressed by electronic warfare units. The Ministry of Defense did not specify which objects were the targets of the attacks.
On June 22, 2022, the governor of the Rostov region, Vasily Golubev, announced that after the drone attack, a fire broke out at the Novoshakhtinsk refinery. He explained that parts of the apparatus were found on the territory of the enterprise.
Later, information on the impact of unmanned aerial vehicles at the refinery was confirmed.
In a statement from the refinery, “As a result of the attack of two unmanned aerial vehicles on the technological facilities of the joint stock company Novoshakhtinsk Oil Products Plant (JSC NZNP), an explosion occurred and a fire broke out.”
On June 20, 2022, the Armed Forces of Ukraine attacked Russia’s Chernomorneftegaz drilling platforms. The head of Crimea, Sergei Aksyonov, said that as of June 21, seven people were missing. Five more workers were rescued from the platform.
On April 1, 2022, a fire broke out in an oil depot in Belgorod. The fire broke out as a result of air strikes from two Mi-24 helicopters of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. They entered Russian territory at low altitude, then attacked oil storage facilities and a printing press. The fire engulfed eight fuel tanks.