“It produces huge amounts of energy.” A fire in an oil refinery in Russia resulted from a drone attack

Russia announced that a fire broke out at an oil refinery, as a result of a drone attack, on Saturday. Meanwhile, Russian defenses responded to an attack by Ukrainian drones on the border areas between the two countries.

Drones launched an attack on Saturday on two oil refineries in the Russian Samara (Volga) region, causing a fire to break out in one of them.

The governor of the Samara region, Dmitry Azarov, announced in a statement posted on Telegram: “Tonight, several drone attacks were carried out on two oil refineries in the region.”

He added that one of these attacks caused “a fire in the Kuibitshevsky oil refinery,” stressing that there were no casualties.

The refinery, run by the giant Russian group Rosneft, is the largest in the Samara region, and its production capacity reaches 7 million tons of oil per year, according to information on its official website.

Azarov said that a drone attack on another oil refinery in Novokoybyshevsky in the Samara region was repelled "without causing damage to the technological equipment."

He wrote: “We see that the enemy, which suffers defeats on the battlefield, is doing everything in its power to undermine our steadfastness and unity.”

For its part, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported in a statement that it responded to 12 Ukrainian drones over the Bryansk, Belgorod and Voronezh regions, on the Ukrainian border, and over Saratov during the night.

Earlier on Friday, the Russian Defense Ministry said that it had carried out comprehensive attacks on various regions in Ukraine, including energy facilities, the defense industry, areas with “foreign mercenaries,” ammunition depots, and railway centers.

Kiev announced that the Russian attacks on Ukrainian territory targeted energy facilities with more than 60 “Shahed” drones and approximately 90 missiles, and caused the disruption of a hydroelectric station.

Later, the Russian authorities announced that 60 people were killed and dozens injured, according to preliminary data, as a result of an “armed terrorist attack” on a concert hall in Moscow.

On February 24, 2022, Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine, conditioning its end on Kiev’s “renunciation” of plans to join military entities, which the latter considers “interference” in its sovereignty.