In the area of the city of Kirishi, three drones were shot down, reported the governor of the Leningrad region, Alexander Drozdenko, adding that the debris caused a fire at the KINEF plant. According to him, the fire was extinguished, and there were no casualties.
The Kirishi refinery (KINEF) is one of the largest oil refineries in Russia, with a capacity of about 21 million tons of oil per year.
The Kirishi refinery was already attacked on March 8, Russian authorities reported that one of the drones hit a tank, and another was shot down while approaching the facility.
The Russian Ministry of Defense reported the destruction of 80 Ukrainian drones by air defense forces: 30 over the territory of the Bryansk region, 15 over the territory of the annexed Crimea, 12 over the territory of the Smolensk region, 10 over Kaluga, 5 over Novgorod, 3 over the waters of the Sea of Azov, 2 over the territory of the Leningrad region, and one each over the Oryol, Ryazan, and Rostov regions.