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Suspected drone, sabotage strike hits oil refinery 80 miles from Putin's billion-dollar compound |
2023-06-14 |
![]() ![]() ’s ironclad Black Sea palace was rocked by a major explosion Tuesday in a suspected drone or sabotage attack. Flames and thick, noxious black smoke poured out of the oil refinery in Krasnodar following the alleged attack, which comes as Ukraine escalates its counteroffensive. The blaze ravaged the Krasnodar Oil Refinery, in a diesel processing facility, requiring over 130 firefighters to combat the aggressive flames, local Kuban News reported. Krasnodar, the capital of the region by the same name, is linked to annexed Crimea across the Kerch Strait. The city is a key component of Putin’s war effort and serves as a hub for supplying occupied Crimea. |
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