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An “oil rain” occurred in the city of Perm after a Ukrainian drone attack
Ukrainian armed forces attacked the Perm region on the night of April 29. I mentioned Governor of the region Dmitry Makhonin. According to him, one of the industrial sites in the Perm municipal district (located on the outskirts of the city of Perm) was attacked by Ukrainian drones. The head of the region said that a fire broke out on the company’s territory, and the workers were evacuated and no one was injured.
The Ukrainian Telegram channel reported that the Transneft facility was attacked. xylinova+ And the Russian edition Astra. According to them, this is the Perm Linear Production and Distribution Station near the village of Pashkoltavo, which is used to receive, store and pump oil through the main pipelines. This is part of the Perm-Almetyevsk oil pipeline, the terminal is owned by Transneft-Prikamye, He writes “an agency”. Information about the attack on the station has not been officially confirmed. Moreover, the fact that a fire broke out in this place comes from Data NASA Satellite Fire Monitoring Project. According to eyewitnesses, a drone crashed in the nearby village of Mokino.
Because of the fire, the sky over Perm was clouded with thick black smoke. Eyewitnesses He saidthat there was “oil rain” in the city, and that is why people’s cars, windows, clothes and skins back Black dots. how Notes Publication “Perm 36.6” Despite the incident, schools and kindergartens in Perm continued to operate as usual.
Ukrainian drones also attacked the Orenburg region on the night of April 29. The region’s governor, Evgeny Solntsev, only officially said that many industrial enterprises were affected. According to him, no one was injured.
Astra reported that the Orsknefteorgsintez oil refinery in Orsk was attacked. Meanwhile, judging by Data Companies, there is no fire at the plant, but large fires were recorded in Novotroitsk near Orsk in the place where the production facilities of Ural Steel are located. It is not known whether this fire is related to the drone attack.
In western Kazakhstan, in the Aktobe region adjacent to the Orenburg region, fragments of a downed drone were found. I mentioned At the local police. The wreckage was found outside populated areas.
Orsk, like Perm, is located in a straight line about 1,500 kilometers from the border with Ukraine. The commander of the Ukrainian unmanned systems forces, Robert Brovdi (Madyar), said in a recent interview with the BBC that the depth of 1,500-2,000 kilometers inside Russia “is no longer a peaceful rear.” Last Saturday, April 25, the Ukrainian Armed Forces for the first time attacked the city of Yekaterinburg with drones, which is located 1,700 kilometers from Ukraine in a straight line.
In Tuapse, the fire in the oil refinery, which broke out after the bombing of the Arab Parliamentary Union, spread to a residential building.
In Tuapse, Krasnodar Territory, on April 29, they continued to extinguish a major fire that broke out the previous day at a local oil refinery after an attack by Ukrainian drones.
On the afternoon of April 28, the Ministry of Emergency Situations reported that during a fire, boiling oil spilled from a tank onto a residential street, causing damage to several cars. About 60 local residents were evacuated from residential buildings in nearby streets.
On the night of April 29, the fire spread from the factory to a nearby two-story residential building. There were no people in the building. The fire in the house spread over an area of 150 square meters and was extinguished within two hours. I mentioned At the operational headquarters of the Krasnodar region.
Regional authorities AnnounceBy 7 a.m. on April 29, it was determined that the fire had spread to the oil refinery. More than 300 people are participating in extinguishing the major fire. At the same time, based on photos and videos taken by eyewitnesses, black smoke continues to rise into the sky over Tuapse due to the fire. Against this background, in schools and institutions of additional education in Tuapse Canceled Classes are on April 29. The local trainee team has continued to work, and parents will pick up their children for the May break on Thursday.
Yesterday, Russian President Vladimir Putin commented for the first time on Ukrainian attacks on oil infrastructure in Tuapse. “Drones are increasingly striking civilian infrastructure. This is the latest example – attacks on energy facilities in Tuapse, which can cause serious environmental consequences. True, the governor just reported: There seem to be no serious threats, and people are dealing with the challenges they face immediately,” Putin said.
Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov male On April 29, he said that “such criminal acts by the Kiev regime” as the attacks on Tuapse “lead” to oil shortages in international markets. According to him, Kyiv struck Tuapse to prevent Russia from exporting oil.
Ukraine
In the Odessa region, a regional hospital was damaged by a Russian raid
Russian armed forces attacked the Odessa region on the night of April 29. I mentioned Head of the Military Administration of the District Oleg Kiper. According to him, the area hospital was damaged as a result of the massive raid. The emergency department was completely destroyed, and several other departments were damaged. Kiper said no one was injured in the attack on the hospital, with health workers and patients taking shelter during the attack.
Residential buildings were also targeted. Two local residents were injured, one of whom was taken to hospital in serious condition due to multiple shrapnel wounds.
The head of the Odessa Region Administration added that a fire occurred on the territory of the Danube Biosphere Reserve, a unique natural complex in the Danube Delta, which is part of the UNESCO Transnational Reserve. In the State Emergency Service of Ukraine He explainedThe reeds caught fire in the reserve lands due to falling debris. It is not clear whether the fire has been extinguished.
In the Sumy region, residential buildings in the Shostka community were attacked by drones belonging to the Russian Armed Forces. I mentioned Head of the regional administration Oleg Grigorov. According to him, Russia “targeted” residential buildings with attacks, and major fires broke out. A 65-year-old local resident was killed.
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Maria (Europe). You took my homeland from me and my children. They took the future into it. We were not planning on leaving until this happened. But remaining in this nightmare, which grows stronger every day, and even passively supporting our country’s aggression against our brotherly people, was unbearable for us. We dropped everything – a good job, our own business, real estate – and left.
Nobody really needs us here; We have to achieve everything again and with great difficulty. But no one needs us in our homeland either; There is no need to create illusions.
We have always been politically active and responsible, we have tried to make our contribution to democratic reforms, and we are not ashamed, at least for ourselves, when they talk about the passivity of Russians who have spoiled their rights and freedoms. Unfortunately, it didn’t work out.
I can only speak of the brutal pain that lives in my heart for all the innocent victims killed in this war. But there are no longer words of optimism and hope.