Explosion occurred in a fuel storage facility in its Krasnodar District Russiawhere firefighters are trying to extinguish the fire that broke out after a Ukrainian attack earlier this week, local authorities said today.

“During the extinguishing process, due to the decompression in the burning tank, oil explosion and a leakage of burning oil occurred,” officials said in Telegram.

The fire spread to another tank, with the area located in flames reaching 10,000 square meters, they added, twice as high as the original.

More than 450 firefighters are trying to extinguish the fire and two have been injured.

The Russian Interfax News Agency, citing local authorities, reported that high levels of harmful chemicals, including benzene, were observed in the atmosphere.

The fuel storage facility, near the village of Kavkazkaya, is located at a Russian oil terminal that is transported to a pipeline connecting Kazakhstan to the Black Sea.

In the meantime the Russian Foreign Ministry estimated yesterday Thursday that Ukraine It has already violated the proposed suspension of plagues in energy infrastructure with this attack.

Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelenski has said that Kiev is ready to agree on this truce – which US President Donald Trump and Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin – after being discussed.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Maria Zaharova told the state -run Channel One yesterday that it is up to the US that proposed the truce to force Ukraine to account for its actions.

“We believe that the Kiev regime has already violated the truce proposed by the US president,” Sakharova commented. “Now the question is – if you allow me – how will Washington face this terrorist dying that went crazy? How will they put him in his place and put him in something that looks like the right way? “

And Ukrainian officials have accused Russia of failing to comply with the truce, launching attacks on non -military targets.

Zelenski complained on Wednesday that Russian attacks on infrastructure, including hospitals and rail infrastructure, show that “Putin’s words are very different from reality.”