An oil base in the Rostov region is burning for the fourth day after a drone attack — video
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An oil base in the Rostov region is burning for the fourth day after a drone attack — video

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Source:  online.ua

The fire at the oil depot in the Rostov region, which supplies fuel to the Russian military, continues on August 31. The refinery was attacked by drones as part of the operation of the GUR of the Ministry of Defense and the SSO, which was carried out by the Ukrainian special services on August 28.

Points of attention

  • The Atlas oil plant has been burning for four days, fuel tanks are on fire. 
  • Russian firefighters are unable to contain the fire. 
  • Local Telegram channels are circulating videos showing open flames and thick black smoke.

The "Atlas" oil base in the Rostov region has been burning for the fourth day

Photos and videos of the fire at the Atlas oil refinery are being distributed in local media. The facility has been burning for the fourth day.

As of 15:00 on August 31, a powerful fire near Kamensko-Shakhtynsk near Rostov continues. Videos that have been shared show flames and thick black smoke.

Depressurized reservoirs continue the wards. Black toxic smoke is billowing and rising upwards.

Atlas refinery was attacked by drones for the second time in a month. During the strike on August 3, a fire also broke out, but it was quickly contained.

Attack of Ukrainian drones on an oil depot in the Rostov region

In the evening of August 28, Ukrainian special services drones attacked an oil depot near Rostov. Local residents heard a powerful explosion, after which a fire started due to depressurization of the tank.

200 rescuers and special equipment were involved in localizing the fire. However, they have not been able to cope with the consequences of the attack for four days.

A few hours after the first explosion, the second one sounded - another tank was depressurized. According to Russian media, three tanks were on fire.

The fire is confirmed by satellite images of the NASA FIRMS system.

The General Staff of the Armed Forces confirmed the destruction of the Atlas oil depot and another refinery in the Kirov region.

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It will be even worse. How Ukraine provoked real chaos in Russia

Ukraine knows how to weaken Putin's regime
Source:  Forbes

Forbes draws attention to the fact that real chaos has begun in the most important branch of Russian industry amid regular attacks by the Ukrainian Defense Forces on oil refineries, reservoirs, and pipeline pumping stations. It seems that Ukraine has finally found the Achilles heel of the aggressor country, which the Kremlin cannot protect.

Points of attention

  • The Ukrainian Defense Forces are relentlessly increasing the number of attacks on Russia in order to stop the war.
  • The Russian oil refining industry suffers from ineffective defense and an inability to cope with Ukrainian drones and missiles.

Ukraine knows how to weaken Putin's regime

As the editorial team predicts, February will be even worse than in previous months, as more and more Ukrainian weapons attack Russia almost every day.

Thus, on the evening of February 11, Ukrainian drones covered a distance of at least 450 miles (over 720 kilometers — ed.) and struck the Rosneft oil refinery in Saratov in southern Russia.

Ukrainian sanctions against the Saratov Oil Refinery are unmanned and irreversible, the Unmanned Systems Forces, a new unit of the Ukrainian army engaged in the development of unmanned aerial vehicles, noted.

What is important to understand is that the Saratov refinery processes about 7 million tons of oil per year. This is more than 2% of Russia's oil refining capacity, which is distributed among 30 large refineries.

Russia's main problem is that its air defense is very stretched and does its job poorly.

Given the fact that the oil industry is scattered throughout the territory of the Russian Federation, it simply cannot protect all refineries and other important facilities.

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