Drone attack sparks fire at Russia’s Afipsky refinery, disrupts Volgograd rail station
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Thu, 07 Aug 2025 11:37:00 +0300

Russian propaganda media outlets, as well as Telegram channels belonging to officials and the Russian Ministry of Defense, reported the information.According to the ASTRA Telegram channel, which cites local residents, the Afipsky oil refinery caught fire after a UAV attack in the Krasnodar region. The governor of Krasnodar Krai, Veniamin Kondratyev, wrote on Telegram that, allegedly as a result of the drone attack, “small fires broke out after debris fell in the Chervonoarmiysky district, but they were quickly extinguished,” and that an attack by unmanned boats was repelled in the waters near Novorossiysk. He added that one person was allegedly injured as a result of debris falling from a UAV in Slavyansk-on-Kuban. At the same time, according to ASTRA, a fire broke out at military unit 61661 in Slavyansk-on-Kuban after the UAV attack.At 8:41 a.m. Kyiv time, the Krasnodar Region Operational Headquarters confirmed a fire at the Afipsky Oil Refinery, noting that the fire in the village of Afipsky in the Siversky District had been extinguished."Due to the fall of UAV debris on the oil refinery, a technological installation for the joint processing of gas and gas condensate caught fire. The fire was classified as a 4th degree fire. Firefighters quickly arrived at the scene. They localized the fire over an area of 250 square meters. At 7:38 a.m., they extinguished the open flames, and at 8:21 a.m., they completely extinguished the fire," the report said.According to information from the Krasnodar Region Operational Headquarters, fragments of the UAV also damaged the contact network on the railway in the Kalinin district.As a result, as of 9:20 a.m. Kyiv time, seven passenger trains were delayed in Russia and the temporarily occupied Crimea.Meanwhile, two railway stations in the Volgograd region were attacked by drones. The governor of the region, Andrey Bocharov, reported this.According to him, during the night, the Russian Ministry of Defense's air defense forces allegedly repelled a UAV attack on targets in the Volgograd region."A fire broke out in the administrative building at the Surovikino railway station, which is being quickly extinguished by the fire department. At the Maxim Gorky railway station, sappers are currently working with the debris of the destroyed UAV – there is no damage to the facilities. Rail transport is operating as usual," he wrote at 6:16 a.m. Kyiv time.The Telegram channel Crimean Wind also reported that drones attacked the Surovikino railway station. According to their data, temporary restrictions were introduced at the Volgograd airport. NASA images confirmed the fire at the Surovikino station, according to the Crimean Wind monitoring group, citing satellite imagery. It has not yet been possible to determine exactly which objects are burning.Surovikino is a freight and passenger station in the Volgograd region of the Volga Railway.On the morning of August 7, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported that during the night, their “air defense forces destroyed and intercepted 82 Ukrainian aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles”:31 – over the waters of the Sea of Azov11 – over the territory of the temporarily occupied Ukrainian Crimea10 – over the territory of the Rostov region9 – over the territory of Krasnodar Krai8 – over the Black Sea7 – over the territory of Volgograd region4 – over the territory of Belgorod region1 – over the territory of Kursk region1 – over the territory of Oryol region.On the night of August 7, Russia attacked Ukraine with drones: a man wounded in Sumy region, four people injured in Dnipro
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