Drone attacks on Russia’s Krasnodar region damage oil depots and communication towers

Editor’s note: This is a developing story and will be updated.

Various Russian media reported that drone attacks on the Russian region of Krasnodar on the night of July 6 caused fires in two oil depots and also damaged a communications tower.

During the night, several drone attacks were reported from the communities of Eisk, Leningrad and Pavlov in the Krasnodar region.

As a result of the attack on an oil depot, fragments from a downed drone caused a fire in a fuel tank in the village of Pavlov and another fire in an oil depot in the Leningrad municipality, the state-controlled Russian news media RIA Novosti reported.

According to reports, a cell phone tower in the village of Eisk was also damaged by the shooting down of another drone.

No casualties were reported as of 4:30 a.m. local time.

The Kyiv Independent could not independently verify the claims and the Ukrainian military has not yet commented on the alleged attacks.

In recent months, Ukrainian forces have carried out a series of drone strikes targeting Harming the Russian oil industry, whose profits finance Moscow’s war effort.

On the night of July 5, Veniamin Kondratiev, governor of Russia’s Krasnodar region, claimed that a drone attack on the city of Primorsko-Akhtarsk killed a six-year-old girl and injured at least five others, including a child. The Ukrainian military has not yet commented on the alleged attacks.

Russia claims civilian casualties in drone strike on Krasnodar region; Kyiv has not commented on the allegations

Ukraine has not commented on the allegations and the claims could not be independently verified.