Drones Hit An Oil Depot Near The Airport In Sochi
10- 3.08.2025, 8:24
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Dozens of explosions have been heard, a fuel tank is on fire.
Sunday night, the city of Sochi in Russia's Krasnodar region was noisy again. It was attacked by UAVs, dozens of explosions were heard, and a large-scale fire broke out at an oil depot, OBOZ.UA writes.
Frames of the attack on Sochi were shared online by Russians. In one video, a local resident claims that the fire broke out on Aviatsionnaya Street, where a large oil depot is located near Sochi airport.
In other videos, Russians say an oil depot in Adler (a Sochi neighborhood) is on fire.
The Rosneft-Kubannefteprodukt oil depot (17/6 Aviatsionnaya Street) was hit. Several drone hits on this facility are reported.
"A fuel tank caught fire at the oil depot in the Adler district. The debris again caught the structures in the garage cooperative on Aviatsionnaya Street," Sochi Mayor Andrei Proshunin said later.

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The governor of Krasnodar Krai, Veniamin Kondratiev, specified that "drone debris" hit a tank with oil products.

For its part, the region's operational headquarters reported that a 2,000-cubic-meter tank of oil products was on fire at the oil depot. In addition, "as a result of falling drone debris" a store on Aviatsionnaya Street caught fire, five garages were also damaged.
"According to preliminary information, there are no casualties. 127 people and 35 units of equipment are involved in liquidating the consequences of the drone attack, including 75 people and 22 units of equipment from the Russian Emergencies Ministry," the Russians reported on the scale of the "fall of UAV debris" at the oil depot.
Rosaviatsia said that temporary restrictions on the reception and release of aircraft have been introduced at the Sochi airport. Rosneft's oil depot is just located about a kilometer from the airport, near Aviatsionnaya Street.
