An oil depot on fire in the Krasnodar Krai as a result of a drone attack

5 February, 2025 Fire at an oil depot in Krasnodar Krai. February 5, 2025. Photo: Astra

Oil tanks caught fire in the Krasnodar Krai as a result of an attack by strike drones. Astra news resource reported on this. The oil depot was attacked on the night of February 4-5, 2025, resulting in several tanks catching fire, and the firefighting has not yet been completed as of 8:00 am.

Veniamin Kondratiev, Governor of Krasnodar Krai, also confirmed the attack on the oil depot on his Telegram page, where he wrote that the fire was caused by the wreckage of one of the drones falling on the tanks. "The wreckage of the UAV fell on a tank with minor oil residues.

A fire has started, and it has been assigned the second complexity rank. Special services are working at the scene.

55 people and 19 pieces of equipment are involved in extinguishing the fire," Kondratiev wrote. The oil depot itself belongs to Albashneft LLC and is located at coordinates 46.33291, 38.93463 in Novominskaya village, Kanevsky district, Krasnodar Krai.

Satellite image of an oil depot in the village of Novominsk.

Photo: NASA/FIRMS

According to NASA's FIRMS monitoring resource, the fire at the tank farm was detected at 01:11 am on February 5, 2025. The exact number of damaged tanks is currently unknown, but there are eight tanks on the site, including three large and five medium-sized tanks.

Satellite image of an oil depot in the village of Novominsk. Photo: Google Maps

The company is located about 250 kilometers from the frontline in Ukraine.

Currently, Albashneft is the only oil depot in the Kanevsky district of Krasnodar Krai, which was commissioned in 2010 and is engaged in primary oil processing. Militarnyi previously reported that attack drones attacked a gas processing plant near the city of Astrakhan. The Astrakhan Gas Processing Plant is one of Russia's largest gas chemical complexes located at the Astrakhan gas condensate field.

In 2022, the plant processed 10 billion cubic meters of natural gas and 3.418 million tons of unstable gas condensate.