“A fuel reservoir caught fire in the village of Volna in the Taman district,” Veniamin Kondratiev, governor of the southern Russian Krasnodar region, said on his Telegram channel. There are no dead or injured. However, the fire is classified as particularly difficult been.
On the outskirts of the Volna settlement is a large transhipment terminal for oil and oil products, which are then shipped across the Black Sea. According to media reports, a cistern containing 20,000 cubic meters of fuel caught fire. It is said that smoke and flames can be seen as far as the Crimean peninsula on the opposite side. The fire has currently covered an area of 1,200 square meters, said the head of the district administration Fyodor Babenkov. The fire brigade is trying to contain the flames and prevent them from spreading to other cisterns. About the causes of the fire is so far nothing known.