SEVERAL oil wagons caught fire near an oil refinery in Omsk, southwestern Russia, on Thursday.
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A locomotive and three wagons with almost 90 tons of oil burned near the Trans-Siberian railway line.
Footage shows huge flames and acrid black smoke rising from the train station.
A huge fire at the Kombinatska railway station engulfed around 10,750 square meters while 58 firefighters fought to contain it for several hours.
Local sources claim that a “short circuit” is to blame for the incident, while Ukrainian media unofficially state that the fire was the result of sabotage.
Oil facilities are otherwise a key target of Ukrainian drones and sabotage. Russia was recently forced to limit exports, but also to import oil from Belarus as a result of attacks on its facilities, writes San.
The fire in Omsk comes just 48 hours after Ukrainian kamikaze drones attacked several valuable Russian oil depots in a coordinated attack across three regions on Tuesday night.
A fuel factory in Smolensk, located not far from the Ukrainian border, was also targeted. The factory in Lipetsk, which produces key parts for used military vehicles, was also affected, Kurir reported.
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