An explosion rocked a thermal energy plant within the Russian metropolis Orenburg, the native Emergency Companies Ministry reported on April 13.
Because of this, a fireplace broke out at a substation within the morning, leaving many native residents with out energy. There have been no casualties, and the fireplace has now been extinguished.
It took a pressure of 20 individuals to place out the fireplace, which lined 10 sq. meters. Russia's Unified Operational Dispatch Service blamed the fireplace on "a brief circuit” on the transformer substation, Russian media reported.
Orenburg lies near the border with Kazakhstan, round 1,700 kilometers from Kyiv and 1,200 kilometers from Moscow. The Russian Protection Ministry mentioned it destroyed Ukrainian drones within the Rostov and Belgorod oblasts in a single day however didn’t report on any drones in Orenburg Oblast.
A gasoline station owned by Russian vitality big Lukoil is situated close to the plant, as reported by Russian unbiased media ASTRA. Ukrainian drones have recurrently focused Russia’s oil and gasoline property in a bid to undermine Moscow’s struggle machine, which depends on income from the vitality sector.
A Ukrainian assault on March 19 brought on an enormous hearth at an oil refinery in Krasnodar Krai that raged for practically per week.
Kyiv has not commented on the explosion in Orenburg.
Ukrainian drones have flown deep into Russian territory, with strikes reported 1,500 kilometers into Russia, together with in Orenburg Oblast. In Might 2024, a Ukrainian drone attacked an early-warning Voronezh M radar within the metropolis of Orsky in Orenburg Oblast.
Ukraine's army intelligence (HUR) final October claimed duty for a fireplace that broken a Russian Tu-134 army transport plane at a army airfield in Orenburg Oblast.
Final month, President Volodymyr Zelensky introduced a long-range drone able to flying 3,000 kilometers.
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