MOSCOW, May 13 (Reuters) – Debris from a Ukrainian drone attack caused a fire on Wednesday at a gas processing plant in Russia’s southern Astrakhan region, the local governor said.
“All enemy aircraft were either shot down or neutralised by electronic warfare systems,” Igor Babushkin wrote on Telegram. “The debris caused a fire.”
Babushkin said there were no casualties or injuries and that the fire was expected to be extinguished within a few hours.
The plant is located near the Caspian Sea, some 1,675 km (1,040 miles) from the Ukrainian border.
(Reporting by Reuters; Writing by Lucy PapachristouEditing by Andrew Osborn)
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