Drone strike hits oil pumping station in Russia’s Krasnodar Krai, killing one
Drones struck the Krymskaya linear production-dispatch station, a key oil pumping facility in the town of Krymsk in Russia’s Krasnodar Krai, overnight into Thursday, killing one civilian and causing a fire at an electrical substation, local authorities and media reports said.
Krasnodar Krai Governor Veniamin Kondratyev reported that drone debris killed a man standing on a balcony of an apartment building in the nearby settlement of Sauk-Dere.
Fragments of downed drones also fell in a field on the outskirts of Krymsk and on the grounds of one enterprise.
Kondratyev did not specify the enterprise, but the independent Russian Telegram channel Astra, citing local residents, identified the target as the Krymskaya linear production-dispatch station (LVD S “Krymskaya”).
The station pumps crude oil and petroleum products through the main pipelines Tikhoretsk–Novorossiysk 2 and 3, Krymsk–Grushovaya, Krymsk–Krasnodar, and the petroleum product pipeline Tikhoretsk–Novorossiysk 1.
From there, oil and products flow to the port of Novorossiysk or to the Ilsky and Afipsky oil refineries.
As a result of the strike, a 110 kV electrical substation Krymskaya NPS caught fire on the station’s grounds.
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