Unidentified drones attacked an oil refinery in Volgograd, Russia.

The governor of the Volgograd region, Andrey Bocharov, said that the attack resulted in a fire at a Lukoil Volgograd Oil Refinery.

According to Russian firefighters, oil products caught fire on an area of 300 square meters. No casualties reported.

The fire was extinguished around eight o’clock Moscow time.

The Russian Defense Ministry reported repelling an attack by seven drones in Volgograd, Belgorod, and Rostov regions.

“Unmanned aerial vehicles were intercepted and destroyed over the territories of Belgorod (4 UAVs), Volgograd (2 UAVs) and Rostov (1 UAV) regions,” the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement.

The governor of the Volgograd region, Andriy Bocharov, wrote that on the night of February 3, air defense forces and electronic warfare equipment repelled an attempted drone attack in the Volgograd region.

He clarified that the attempted attack took place in the Kalachyovsky district of the region and in the Zakanal’ye area.

The crash of the drone at the Lukoil Volgograd Oil Refinery was also reported by local residents who heard two explosions.

The Volgograd Oil Refinery has been in operational since 1957, and since 1993 it has been a part of the Lukoil company.

The Volgograd facility was named Lukoil Volgograd Oil Refinery and is the largest producer of petroleum products in the Southern Federal District.

Recently an unknown drone crashed on the territory of the Russian Slavneft-YANOS oil refinery in Yaroslavl. A small fire broke out, which the plant’s employees extinguished on their own.