MOSCOW (Reuters) – Firefighters have extinguished a blaze that had burned for two days at a petrochemicals plant in Russia’s Nizhny Novogorod region struck by Ukrainian drones on Wednesday, state news agency TASS cited emergency services as saying on Friday.
TASS quoted the local emergencies ministry as saying that the “open fire” had been “liquidated”.
Petrochemicals giant Sibur’s Kstovo plant, which is about 800 km (500 miles) from the Ukrainian border, was struck alongside a nearby oil refinery overnight on Wednesday.
Sibur said at the time that it had temporarily suspended operations at the plant after debris from a Ukrainian drone sparked a fire.
Ukraine has carried out frequent air attacks on Russian refineries, oil depots and industrial sites in an attempt to cripple key infrastructure underpinning Russia’s war effort.
(Writing by Felix Light; Editing by Jan Harvey)
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