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Posted on January 13, 2025
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A fire at a Russian industrial plant in the Volga region was extinguished after a Ukrainian drone strike. The attack targeted an oil depot supplying a nuclear bomber base.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian firefighters have put out the flames at an "industrial plant" in the Volga region, a local official said on Monday, five days after Ukraine said it had struck an oil depot there supplying an air base for Russian nuclear bomber planes.
Regional governor Roman Busargin said the "open burning" at the site, which he did not identify, had been extinguished overnight, but emergency workers remained in place around the clock.
"The work continues," he said, without specifying what further actions were needed.
The Jan. 8 Ukrainian drone attack on the city of Engels ignited a huge blaze in which two firefighters died, and prompted Busargin to declare a state of emergency.
(Reporting by Mark Trevelyan; editing by Guy Faulconbridge)
The fire was ignited by a Ukrainian drone attack on January 8.
It took Russian firefighters five days to put out the flames.
The blaze resulted in the death of two firefighters and led to a state of emergency being declared.
Emergency workers remain on-site, and the regional governor mentioned that 'the work continues' without specifying further actions.
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