More than 120 firefighters were trying to put out the flames at an oil depot in a Russian city in Sochi, but regional governor Beniamin Kondratiev, sparked by a drone attack in Ukraine, spoke about the telegram messaging app early on Sunday.
In the Krasnodar region of the Black Sea where Sochi is located, fuel tanks with a capacity of 2,000 cubic meters (70,000 cubic feet) were on fire, Russian news agency cited emergency officials.
In its daily morning report on Telegram, the Russian Ministry of Defense said its air defense units destroyed 93 Ukrainian drones overnight, including one of the Krasnodar regions and 60 in the waters of the Black Sea.
The ministry reports not only how many drones will be destroyed, but also how many drones will be destroyed.
Russia’s civil aviation authorities, Rosaviatia, temporarily suspends flights at Sochi airports, ensuring air safety before telegrams saying flights had resumed as of Sunday (10pm ET).
Reuters was unable to independently verify the report. There were no immediate comments from Ukraine.
The attack Kondratiev said will be the latest in Ukraine on infrastructure in Russia, which Kiev considers as key to Moscow’s war effort, in the Adler district of the coastal resort city.
A woman was killed in the Adler district in a Ukrainian drone attack late last month, but the attack on Sochi, which hosted the 2014 Olympic Winter Games, was rare in the war Russia launched in February 2022.
The Krasnodar region is home to the Irsky refinery near the city of Krasnodar, the largest region in southern Russia and a frequent target for Ukrainian drone attacks.
Also on Sunday, the governor of the southern Russian region of Bolognez said four people were injured in a Ukrainian drone strike that caused several fires, according to the military regime in the Ukrainian capital, while Russia launched missile attacks on Kiev.
The Russian Ministry of Defense said the unit had destroyed 18 Ukrainian drones in the Bolognez region, which borders Ukraine.
