Drones have attacked a Bashneft facility in the city of Ufa, the capital of Russia's Bashkortostan, causing a fire.

Source : Radiy Khabirov, the head of the Republic of Bashkortostan; social media

Details : Khabirov reported that one of the drones had been downed after "sustaining damage". The UAV is said to have fallen on the plant's territory.

"The production site has been slightly damaged and a fire broke out there, which is now being extinguished," he wrote.

After that, another drone was supposedly downed. According to Khabirov, "the extent of the damage caused by its fall is still being confirmed".

Meanwhile, social media reports said that the fire had broken out on the territory of the Bashneft-Novoil oil refinery (known as the Novo-Ufa oil refinery until 2012). The plant is located about 1,400 km from the border with Ukraine.

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