Local Russian authorities have declared a state of emergency in the southwestern Russian town of Proletarsk, where a Ukrainian drone strike on Sunday set fuel stocks ablaze and injured at least 18 firefighters. . Efforts to extinguish the fire, which started on Sunday morning at an industrial site in the Rostov region, continued on Monday, the Proletarsk region administration said on Telegram.
The state of emergency was imposed at midnight local time, she said. On Telegram, the regional governor, Vasily Goloubev, said that 18 firefighters had to be treated by doctors and that four of them were hospitalized with burns. According to this source, additional resources were dispatched to control the fire”in difficult conditions caused by high temperatures”.
The day before, the governor had declared that the fire was the result of falling debris after an “air defense (repelled) drone attack”, specifying that no one was injured .
For its part, a source within Ukraine’s military intelligence services (GUR) confirmed to AFP on Sunday that drones attacked the Kavkaz fuel and petroleum products storage facility, located in Proletarsk.
2024-08-20 11:03:00
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