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Fire breaks out at Russian refinery in Volgograd

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Fire breaks out at Russian refinery in Volgograd
A view of Volgograd oil refinery. (nsenergybusiness.com) 

A fire broke out at the Volgograd oil refinery overnight on Feb. 3, regional governor Andrei Bocharov reported via Telegram.

"Overnight, air defenses and electronic warfare systems repelled a drone attack on the territory of the Volgograd Region," Bocharov said. "As a consequence, one drone fell and set off a fire at the Volgograd oil refinery."  

Petroleum products were burning on an area of about 300 square metres. The governor said that the fire was quickly localized and open burning was eliminated.

No casualties were reported as a result of the incident.

Volgograd Oblast is located around 300 kilometers from the border with Ukraine. The region borders Rostov Oblast in the southwest, Voronezh Oblast in the northwest, Saratov Oblast in the north, Astrakhan Oblast and the Republic of Kalmykia in the southeast.

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Olena Goncharova is the Head of North America desk at The Kyiv Independent, where she has previously worked as a development manager and Canadian correspondent. She first joined the Kyiv Post, Ukraine's oldest English-language newspaper, as a staff writer in January 2012 and became the newspaper’s Canadian correspondent in June 2018. She is based in Edmonton, Alberta. Olena has a master’s degree in publishing and editing from the Institute of Journalism in Taras Shevchenko National University in Kyiv. Olena was a 2016 Alfred Friendly Press Partners fellow who worked for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette for six months. The program is administered by the University of Missouri School of Journalism in Columbia.

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