A Ukrainian drone attack caused a huge fire and damaged multiple tankers filled with fuel at an oil depot in Russia's Krasnodar region, regional officials said on Friday.Krasnodar Governor Veniamin Kondratyev said on Telegram Friday morning that the blaze at the oil hub in the Temryuk district was being extinguished, and that there were casualties.'Three tanks with petroleum products were damaged and burning. The fire is currently being extinguished,' he wrote.
Olha Stefanishyna, a Ukrainian deputy prime minister, has argued that Russian oil refineries were legitimate military targets for Ukraine, while U.S. officials, including U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, warned that attacks on Russian refineries could have 'a knock-on effect in terms of the global energy situation.