A fire broke out in the early hours of the morning at the Slavyansk refinery in Russia’s Krasnadar region (south), which Ukraine launched a new attack with one-way unmanned aerial vehicles, local authorities said.

“The drones were neutralized, but a fire broke out due to the crash of one,” local authorities said via Telegram.

“The fire in the area of ​​the Slavyansk oil refinery has been completely extinguished,” the general operations headquarters of the Krasnadar region assured.

“According to the first information, one person died,” a worker at the facility, “probably due to cardiac arrest,” he added.

Earlier, state news agency TASS reported that at least one worker at the refinery was injured.

At the same time, the mayor of Moscow, Sergei Sabianin, announced that two Ukrainian drones were destroyed near the Russian capital.

The Ukrainian military is multiplying drone attacks, often deep into Russian territory, more than two years after the Russian armed forces invaded Ukrainian territory in February 2022, most recently targeting refineries, or fuel storage facilities. Moscow accuses Kiev of “terrorist” actions, which it says are aimed, among other things, at preventing the smooth conduct of presidential elections in Russia, which continue today for the third and final day.