The attack comes as the country's top commander said that Russian forces were staging relentless assaults to try to advance towards the town of Pokrovsk, a logistics hub in eastern Ukraine, and that there was active fighting taking place along the entire frontline.
“The enemy pays no attention to their fairly high level of losses and continues to push through towards Pokrovsk,” Colonel General Oleksandr Syrskyi said in a statement.
The oil refinery in Tuapse was damaged in an overnight assault, officials from the Krasnodar region confirmed yesterday. Debris from a drone that was shot down by Russia sparked a fire at the refinery, which is located in the Black Sea and owned by Kremlin-controlled oil company Rosneft.
The blaze has since been contained and there were no deaths following the attack, the regional administration said on the Telegram messaging app. It was not immediately clear the extent of the damage it had sustained from the fire or if the refinery was operational.
Russia’s defence ministry earlier said its air defence systems destroyed 75 drones launched by Ukraine, including eight near Tuapse. The Tuapse refinery has been a target of several Ukrainian air attacks since the start of the war in 2022.
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