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An oil depot caught fire in Crimea following a drone attack

UA NEWS 16 April 2026 10:27
An oil depot caught fire in Crimea following a drone attack

In the temporarily occupied Crimea, an oil depot in the village of Oktyabrskoye caught fire on the night of April 16 following a drone attack. There are also reports of a fire in the Bakhchysarai district near the "TES Company Oil and Gas Storage Facility."

This was reported by the Telegram channel "Crimean Wind."

"An oil depot is on fire in the village of Oktyabrskoye following a nighttime attack, according to subscribers," the message states.

The Telegram channel’s monitoring group posted satellite images of the fire.

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Satellite images also captured a fire in the Bakhchysarai district near the "TES Oil and Gas Storage Facility."

Earlier, the Telegram channel reported on a series of explosions in Simferopol, Feodosia, and the Krasnoperekopsk district of the peninsula.

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We previously reported that Crimea was under a massive drone attack.

In Kharkiv, a Russian UAV struck a high-rise building

Russian troops attacked the village of Zolochiv in the Kharkiv region with drones

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