Russia hit by drone attack as oil depot burns in Ust-Labinsk
The fire has not been extinguished yet (Illustrative photo: screenshot)
On Saturday, early in the morning of June 6, Russia again came under attack by unknown drones. As a result of the incident, an oil depot caught fire in one of the cities, according to Russian Telegram channels.
According to posts in the public channels, a drone threat warning was issued in the Krasnodar Krai as early as the night. However, toward morning, local channels in the city of Ust-Labinsk began publishing instructions on what to do in the event of a drone attack.
After 4 a.m., footage began circulating on social media showing a fire at a local oil depot.
Drone attack sparks major blaze at oil facility in Russia’s Ust-Labinsk (Photo: https://t.me/exilenova_plus)
Russia hit by drone attack as oil depot burns in Ust-Labinsk https://t.co/jEJBoxDZbw pic.twitter.com/IsrqwnoQX7
— RBC-Ukraine (@NewsUkraineRBC) June 6, 2026
OSINT channels believe that the Poltava oil depot was attacked. It is known that this active facility for storing and transshipping petroleum products has a reserve tank farm of about 15,000 cubic meters, serving automobile and railway fuel supplies.
By the way, also this morning, Russians complained of a drone attack in the Leningrad region. However, no information about any consequences has been reported yet, and local authorities reported that 25 UAVs were allegedly shot down.
In addition, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin reported throughout the night and continues to report that Russian air defense systems are shooting down drones heading toward the Russian capital.
Meanwhile, unknown drones entered the territory of temporarily occupied Mariupol. Preliminarily, the port was attacked there, after which at least thick, dark smoke rose above the facility.
The port was attacked in temporarily occupied Mariupol (Photo: https://t.me/exilenova_plus)
What else is known
At the end of May, Reuters reported that almost all of the largest oil refineries in central Russia had either completely stopped production or significantly reduced it. This happened as a result of large-scale Ukrainian drone attacks.
On the night of June 3, the Defense Forces struck ships and infrastructure facilities in the port of Kronstadt in the Leningrad region of Russia.
