A fire that broke out in early hours of Sunday at the Afipsky oil refinery in Russia’s Krasnodar region was promptly extinguished, the region’s emergency security authorities said after social media reports of powerful blasts shaking the refinery.
“There were no casualties, no infrastructure was damaged, and there is no threat to the enterprise or residents of nearby settlements,” the emergency administration authority of the Krasnodar region, which lies on coast of the Black Sea, said on its Telegram messaging app.
It did not provide information on what caused the fire.
