A fire broke out on the territory of the Nevsky Mazut plant in St. Petersburg as a result of a drone strike

31 January, 2024 The infrastructure of the enterprise is affected. Source: X (ex-Twitter) user Mr. Pachkovsky

On the night of January 31, drones hit the infrastructure of the Nevsky Mazut plant in St. Petersburg. Meduza reported on this.

According to Russian media, the drone was "shot down" by air defense systems over the village of Kolpino at about 4:20 a.m., but continued its movement and crashed on the plant's territory. As a result of the drone crash, a fire broke out on the territory of the plant, setting three "empty" tanks on fire, but according to Russian reports, it was quickly extinguished. X (ex-Twitter) user Mr.

Pachkovsky released photos (with traces of watermark editing) from the territory of the enterprise. Photos show significant destruction of infrastructure and damage to vehicles.

Militarnyi previously reported that an unknown drone crashed on the territory of the Russian Slavneft-YANOS oil refinery in Yaroslavl. It noted that the alleged electronic warfare (EW) system, which protects the plant, was allegedly able to jam the UAV's signals. On January 25, it was reported that a Russian oil refinery was attacked by drones in the Krasnodar Krai.

On the night of January 25, a series of explosions occurred at a Russian refinery in Tuapse, owned by Rosneft, causing a fire.

St. Petersburg is under attack

Militarnyi reported on January 18 that the Russian port infrastructure in St. Petersburg was attacked by Ukrainian-made drones with a range of 1250 kilometers.

Oleksandr Kamyshin, the Minister of Strategic Industries of Ukraine, made the corresponding statement. It is worth recalling that on the night of January 18, at about 1:30 a.m., Russian air defense intercepted an aircraft-type drone in the Leningrad oblast.

Russian media reported that three drones were used in the attack. The wreckage of one of them was discovered on the territory of the JSC Petersburg Oil Terminal.

The port infrastructure was not damaged. An unknown fixed-wing drone with a wingspan of 6 meters and a piston engine was carrying a warhead weighing 3 kg. In addition, two more drones could allegedly fall in the Gulf of Finland area, 5 kilometers from the terminal.

It is noted that on the path to St.

Petersburg, they flew through Bryansk, Smolensk, Tver, and Novgorod regions.