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Ukrainian drones strike Russia’s Tuapse refinery for third time

Al Jazeera · · 60 words
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“Ukraine has targeted a major Russian oil refinery in the Black Sea port city of Tuapse for the third time in less than two weeks”
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Multiple independent sources (CBC News and a report titled 'Breathing oil') confirm that the Tuapse oil refinery was hit three times within a two-week period, with the most recent attack occurring around April 28.
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web search NEUTRAL — Drone strikes have sparked fires at Russia’s Tuapse oil refinery three times in recent weeks, most recently on 28 April. After each attack, thick smoke has risen over the city and residents have repor…
https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2026/04/29/breathing-oil-en
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web search NEUTRAL — The refinery, which belongs to the Russian oil giant Rosneft, has been hit three times in the past two weeks.The Tuapse refinery, which lies 900 kilometres southeast of Kyiv, has been closed since Apr…
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/ukraine-russia-refinery-attack…
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web search NEUTRAL — The Tuapse refinery is one of Russia’s largest, with an annual processing capacity of 12 million metric tons of oil, according to Andriy Kovalenko, spokesman for Ukraine's National Security and Defens…
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/03/17/fire-at-oil-refine…
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“setting off a fresh blaze”
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Three separate sources confirm that drone attacks caused fires at the refinery: The Moscow Times cites Governor Veniamin Kondratyev reporting a fire over 1,000 square meters, Reuters reports a 'major fire' on April 28, and another source reports a fire breaking out on April 20.
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web search NEUTRAL — “Work continues. Firefighters have the situation under control.” Krasnodar region Governor Veniamin Kondratyev said the fire spread across more than 1,000 square meters but caused no injuries when the…
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/03/17/fire-at-oil-refine…
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web search NEUTRAL — Ukrainian drones struck the port of Tuapse overnight on April 20, killing one person and injuring another, Krasnodar Krai Governor Veniamin Kondratyev said. A fire broke out at the seaport, he wrote o…
https://meduza.io/en/news/2026/04/20/ukrainian-drones-strike…
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web search NEUTRAL — MOSCOW, April 28 (Reuters) - A Ukrainian drone attack caused a major fire at a Russian oil refinery in the city of Tuapse on Tuesday, officials said, in what President Vladimir Putin described as.
https://www.aol.com/articles/drone-attack-causes-fire-russia…
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“prompting authorities to evacuate local residents”
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The provided evidence for this claim contains no relevant information. The search results returned generic information about the '.local' domain and unrelated news from CBS Local and Fox Local, with no mention of evacuations in Tuapse.
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web search NEUTRAL — The domain name .local is a special-use domain name reserved by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) so that it may not be installed as a top-level domain in the Domain Name System (DNS) of the …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.local
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web search NEUTRAL — Seventeen Americans and a British citizen evacuated from the cruise ship hit with a deadly outbreak of hantavirus arrived in the U.S. early Monday. One American on the repatriation flight "tested...
https://www.cbsnews.com/cbslocal/
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