Another Large Oil Storage Facility Caught Fire In Russia

• 23.04.2026, 19:20

Because of the UAV attack.

Following the oil terminal in Tuapse, which has been burning for the fourth day, covering the sky with toxic smog and provoking "oil rains," a fire has broken out at another Russian oil storage facility.

According to Reuters, citing two industry sources, the Gorky oil pumping station (OPS) in the Nizhny Novgorod region caught fire on April 23 due to a UAV attack. At least two of four oil tanks with a capacity of 50,000 cubic meters each are burning at the station, the Reuters interlocutors said.

The Gorky pumping station, located 50 km from Nizhny Novgorod, is involved in pumping oil for export to the port of Primorsk on the Baltic Sea. This station also supplies crude oil to the key refineries - Moscow, Slavneft-Yaroslavnefteorgsintez (YaNOS) and Kirishinefteorgsintez (Kinef). All of them are among the top 10 largest in Russia.

A UAV attack on an industrial enterprise in the Nizhny Novgorod region was reported on Thursday by Governor Gleb Nikitin. According to him, 11 drones were involved in the raid. "As a result of falling debris, a facility on the territory of one of the enterprises was damaged with subsequent burning," the governor wrote in his Telegram channel.

Earlier this week, tanks in the port of Tuapse caught fire due to a UAV attack. Smoke from the fire, which environmentalists called "the largest" for the region "ecological disaster," stretched for hundreds of kilometers and reached Stavropol, Sochi and Anapa. An oil slick about 7.5 kilometers long was formed in the sea, which reached the Tuapse coast on Thursday.