(Reuters) – Firefighters continued for the fifth day to fight a fire at an oil depot in Russia’s Krasnodar region, sparked last week by a drone attack that authorities blamed on Ukraine, the regional administration said.
“One of the tanks and oil products inside the facility are burning,” the administration said in a post on the Telegram messaging app on Sunday local time.
As of 1700 GMT on Sunday, the area of the fire at the depot near the village of Kavkazskaya was around 2,000 square metres (21,500 square feet), the administration said on Telegram.
The fire area nearly doubled the night before following an oil products spill.
The Russian foreign ministry said the attack amounted to a violation of an agreement to halt attacks on energy infrastructure under efforts to secure a ceasefire in the war in Ukraine.
Local authorities had brought in firefighting trains loaded with water to help to battle the blaze on Saturday.
The depot is a rail terminal for Russian oil supplies for a pipeline to Kazakhstan.
(Reporting by Lidia Kelly in Melbourne; Editing by Christopher Cushing)
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