Russian firefighters take five days to put out blaze at Putin nuclear bombers' oil depot hit by Kyiv drones
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Russian firefighters have reportedly put out a blaze after five days at an oil site which supplies an air base for Vladimir Putin’s nuclear bomber fleet. Regional governor Roman Busargin said the “open burning” at the site in the Volga region, which he did not identify, had been extinguished overnight, but emergency workers remained in place around the clock.
“The work continues,” he said, without specifying what further actions were needed. Ukrainian drones reportedly hit an oil depot on January 8 at the industrial plant in the city of Engels which ignited a huge blaze in which two firefighters died, and prompted Mr Busargin to declare a state of emergency.
Russia said on Monday it had downed nine Ukrainian drones that tried to attack part of the infrastructure of the TurkStream gas pipeline, through which Russian gas flows to Turkey and Europe. The Russian defence ministry said the attack was aimed against a compressor station in the Krasnodar region of southern Russia, but the facility was working normally and there were no casualties.
Russian troops took control of the village of Pishchane in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine, the TASS state news agency reported on Monday, citing the defence ministry. Neither of the claims could be independently verified. Ukraine’s air defences downed 78 out of 110 Russian drones launched in an overnight attack on Monday, the Ukrainian air force said.
It said 31 drones were “lost” in a reference to Kyiv using electronic warfare to redirect them. The air force also said that drone debris damaged several commercial and residential buildings in four Ukrainian regions in the centre, north, and southeast.
