Ukraine drone strikes kills one, sparks fire at Russian port of Temryuk

MOSCOW: A Ukrainian drone attack killed one person and sparked a fire at a sea terminal in the southern Russian port of Temryuk, in the Krasnodar region, governor Veniamin Kondratiev said on Saturday on the Telegram messaging app._x000D_
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Ukraine’s military and the SBU security service said that Ukrainian drones hit several targets in Russia during overnight attacks — the oil and gas terminal in the Russian Krasnodar region ‌and also an ‌oil processing and pumping facility ‌in ⁠the Volgograd region._x000D_
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Ukraine continues ⁠to pummel Russia’s energy infrastructure as peace talks to resolve the four-year Ukraine war have stalled._x000D_
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Ukrainian drones hit the Tamanneftegaz oil and gas terminal in the Russian Krasnodar region, striking five fuel tanks and also two oil loading stands, the SBU security ⁠service said._x000D_
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It said fires were burning ‌in the area of ‌the Tamanneftegaz freight transport depot and its storage facilities._x000D_
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Temryuk was ‌previously targeted by Ukrainian drones in late May, ‌when Kyiv’s security service said it had struck a gas terminal there._x000D_
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A separate strike on Saturday sparked a fire in an industrial area of the Kotovo district in ‌the Volgograd region, regional authorities said, citing governor Andrei Bocharov._x000D_
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Bocharov did not disclose ⁠details ⁠of the damage or identify the facilities affected._x000D_
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The Ukrainian General Staff said that its troops hit the oil processing and pumping facility near the town of Kotovo in the Volgograd region, causing a fire. It said that the facility handles processing, transportation, and pumping of oil via pipelines to Russian oil refineries and its export infrastructure._x000D_
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On June 1 Reuters reported that the Lukoil-owned Volgograd oil refinery in Russia’s south has suspended oil processing since May 29 following a Ukrainian drone attack.