An oil refinery burned in the Rostov region.
On Wednesday, February 8, in Novoshakhtinsk, Rostov region, there was a fire at the Resurs plant, which specializes in the processing of petroleum products.
This is reported by the propaganda media of the Russian Federation .
The area of the fire was 100 m², as of 10:30 the fire was eliminated.
The causes of the fire have not yet been reported.
Fires in the Russian Federation on oil refineries
Since 2022, fires at critical facilities, in particular oil refineries, have become more frequent in Russia. So, in November 2022, in the Irkutsk region, on the territory of the Angarsk Petrochemical Company, a fire broke out.
In December last year, the fire again broke out on the territory of the Angarsk Petrochemical Company, as a result there was an explosion. The explosion was very powerful, seismographs in the region recorded an earthquake, and ceilings collapsed in the premises of a thermal power plant a few kilometers from the explosion site.
In February 2023, a large fire at an oil refinery owned by Lukoil.