Refinery
Afipsky refinery — drone-strike fire
31 May 2023
Afipsky, Krasnodar Krai, Russia
What happened
A drone caused a fire at the Afipsky refinery near the Black Sea oil-export hub of Novorossiysk, according to Krasnodar governor Veniamin Kondratyev. The fire was extinguished quickly and no casualties were reported. No party immediately claimed the strike and the available reporting did not establish lasting equipment damage or a production shutdown, so the attribution reflects the wider Ukrainian campaign rather than a public Ukrainian claim.
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- Evidence
- Documented
- Confidence
- High
- Infrastructure
- Refinery
- Latitude
- 44.9000°
- Longitude
- 38.8400°
Attribution
Attributed to Ukraine
