An oil storage facility is on fire in the russian port of Taman

An oil storage facility is on fire in the russian port of Taman


A fire broke out in an oil storage facility in the russian port of Taman at night after the explosion.

Around 02:30 on the night of Wednesday, May 3, an explosion rang out in the port of Taman (Kerch Strait, russian federation). After that, a large-scale fire broke out, rosZMI writes.

According to the governor of the region, Veneamine Kondratiev, the fire was assigned the highest level of complexity. According to preliminary information, there are no victims or victims.

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Russian channels blame the fire on a Ukrainian drone that allegedly hit a Tamannaftogaz fuel tank in the port of Taman.

Taman is the nearest large port to the Crimean bridge, through which the supply of the russian group of troops in the occupied Crimea goes.

As previously reported by USM, on April 29, an oil depot of the Black Sea Fleet of russian federation was on fire in Sevastopol. The burni ng area was about 1,000 square meters. m.