A fire broke out at an oil depot in Tikhoretsk, the Krasnodar Territory Task Force reported on its Telegram channel.
“There are no casualties or injuries“, the task force specified.
224 people and 56 pieces of equipment, including personnel from the Krasnodar Territory Ministry of Emergency Situations, are deployed to extinguish the fire.
Representatives of the emergency response center did not specify the cause of the fire.
Tikhoretsk is an important railway junction and administrative center of the Tikhoretsk region. It is located in the Kuban steppe zone, about 150 km northeast of Krasnodar.
Its population is about 57,000 people. The city is a center of railway transport and the food industry.
The city is a key point connecting the railway lines to Rostov-on-Don, Krasnodar and Volgograd. It is home to a large locomotive depot and a railway equipment repair plant.
A fuel tank caught fire near the “Kazachya Bukhta“ area, Sevastopol Mayor Mikhail Razvozhaev announced.
According to preliminary data, the fire was caused by a drone crash.
“The smoke seen in the Gagarin district is the burning tank containing residual fuel,“ he explained.
Emergency services are working at the scene of the incident. The governor specified that the fire was small and there were no injuries.
The fire will not affect Sevastopol's fuel supply in any way, as it was empty, Razvozhaev explained.
At 00:48 Moscow time, an air raid alert was declared in the city. Twenty minutes later, Razvozhaev reported that the military had destroyed two air targets in the Severnaya Strana region and the Balaklava municipal district. At 02:53 Moscow time, the governor announced that the air raid alert had been lifted.
According to regional governor Alexander Drozdenko, air defense forces had destroyed at least 15 drones over the Leningrad region.
At 04:18 Moscow time, the regional governor wrote that the military had shot down two targets over the region. Half an hour later, six more drones were intercepted.
Ten minutes later, Drozdenko wrote that the number of drones destroyed had increased to 11. At 5:19 a.m. Moscow time, the governor of the Leningrad Region reported that 15 drones had been shot down.
At 1:51 a.m. Moscow time, a drone alert was issued in the Leningrad Region. A drone threat was also issued in the neighboring Pskov Region.
Restrictions on landing and take-off of aircraft have been introduced at Pulkovo and Pskov airports.