Russian oil refinery near Kaluga catches fire at night (VIDEO)

This was reported by the Russian mass media with reference to local residents.

The plant employees were reportedly evacuated from the refinery around midnight. There were no casualties.

The governor of Kaluga Oblast, Vladimir Shapsha, acknowledged the fact of the fire — he said that the blaze had already been extinguished and that the amount of damage to the enterprise's infrastructure was now being assessed.

The mayor of Moscow, Sergey Sobyanin, said that at night, a drone also flew toward the Russian capital, but it was shot down in the city's Podolsky district. According to preliminary data, there were no damages or casualties at the place where the debris fell.

Previous fires at Russian refineries

On May 9, a number of drones attacked an oil depot in the village of Yurovka in the Krasnodar Krai of the Russian Federation. According to hromadske, it was an SBU security service operation. The affected oil depots are important for the supply of fuel to the Russian troops in the occupied Crimea, as they are located near the peninsula.

The Operational Headquarters in Krasnodar Krai said that during the attack, about six Ukrainian drones were downed, but some of them fell on the facility. The media, with reference to eyewitnesses, reported an attack by seven drones.

On the morning of May 9, a long-range SBU drone struck the Gazprom Neftekhim Salavat oil refinery in the Russian Republic of Bashkortostan, covering a distance of 1,500 kilometers.

Refinery Gazprom Neftekhim Salavat is one of the largest oil refining and petrochemical production complexes in Russia. It specializes in the production of gasoline, diesel fuel, and other types of petroleum products.