Ukrainian drones struck a tanker at Russia's port of Taganrog overnight and hit an oil depot in the city of Armavir, authorities in the southern regions of Rostov and Krasnodar said on Saturday.
Rostov region Governor Yury Slyusar said on Telegram that fires on the tanker and in the port of Taganrog — a city of about 240,000 — had been extinguished, with no oil spill reported. Two people were injured, he said.
The city's mayor, Svetlana Kambulova, said a local state of emergency, introduced on May 27, had been extended.
In the neighbouring Krasnodar region, authorities in Armavir, which has a population of 185,000, said a fire at an oil depot in the city's industrial zone had been brought under control and that there were no injuries.
Rostov governor Slyusar said that almost 50 drones had been downed in the region, with attacks reported across the province, which borders Ukraine's Donbass, the focus of fighting between Russia and Ukraine.
Outside Taganrog, he said, only minor damage was reported.
Ukrainian drone forces commander separately said the drone also hit a shadow fleet tanker and an oil terminal in occupied Crimea.
Robert Brovdi said on the Telegram app that the drone forces also hit 23 military targets inside Russia, including two Tupolev-142 long-range maritime reconnaissance planes and an Iskander missile complex.
