INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
officials reported a downed drone near another refinery.Governor Venyamin Kondratyev wrote on Telegram that there were no casualties and the
blaze at the Afipsky oil refinery had been put out after burning for a few hours.The Afipsky refinery is located near the Ilsky oil
destroyed by a bomb disposal team.Ukraine adheres to a policy of neither confirming nor denying its role in the attacks on Russian
territory.The Ilsky oil refinery was targeted by drones on Sunday, with local emergency officials saying they had all been destroyed by
source at the refinery saying a drone hadhit an aerial cooler at the CDU-5 column with an annual capacity of 1.8 million metric tons.The
Ilsky refinery has a processing capacity of 6.6 million tons a year.Oil refineries across Russia and Russian-annexed Crimea have been
attacked by drones more than five times this month.Crude oil is a key wartime resource, making oil facilities a top target for Ukraine and
an imminent Ukrainian counteroffensive.
