Drones attacked a fuel and energy complex in Russia’s Astrakhan Oblast, igniting a fire there, regional governor, Igor Babushkin, wrote on Telegram early on March 17.
Russian authorities claimed they had "repelled a massive attack" as usual. However, the governor admitted that debris from one of the drones fell onto the facility’s premises, setting a fire in it.
Babushkin wrote that emergency services were working to deal with the attack aftermath, adding that one person was injured as a result.
Russia’s Defense Ministry later claimed that its air defense forces "shot down" six drones over Volgograd, Rostov, and Tula oblasts.
Earlier, on the night of March 14, drones targeted an oil refinery in the Russian city of Tuapse, causing a fire. The refinery is among the largest in Russia, with an annual processing capacity of approximately 12 million tons of oil.