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Russian energy and industrial sites caught fire on Tuesday after Ukrainian drone attacks in two regions of the country, Russian authorities said.
In the suburbs of Kazan, capital of the Russian republic of Tatarstan (Volga), “a gas tank caught fire (…) following a drone attack,” the local government said on Telegram , assuring that “no one was injured” and specifying that the regional leader, Roustam Minnikhanov, went to the scene of the fire.
According to local media, which broadcast images of a large flame and a plume of black smoke rising into the sky, the attack targeted a liquefied gas depot near a chemical factory.
In the Saratov region, located about 700 kilometers southeast of Moscow and some 500 km from the Ukrainian border, “two industrial enterprises were damaged” following a “massive drone attack,” wrote on Telegram regional governor Roman Boussarguine.
A fire was caused by this attack on a company in Engels, he indicated, without specifying the nature of the damage caused to the second company struck, located in Saratov. According to Mr. Boussarguine, classes in schools in Saratov and Engels will be held remotely on Tuesday, due to drone attacks.
Engels was already targeted on January 8 by a major drone attack which caused a fire on an oil site. According to the authorities, two firefighters died in this fire which was only brought under control five days after it broke out.
kyiv and Moscow have intensified their strikes in recent months and want to strengthen their positions before Donald Trump returns to the White House on January 20, the American president-elect having said he wants to stop the war as soon as he takes office.
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