A huge fire has broken out at the Rosneft refinery in the Russian city of Razam after raids by Ukrainian drones.

A huge fireball appears to rise into the sky from the second largest oil refinery in the country after a direct hit by a Ukrainian drone.

Videos uploaded to X show several fires and smoke rising from the city in western Russia, about 200 kilometers southeast of Moscow.

No casualties have been reported from the Ukrainian attack at this time.

Earlier, the Russian Defense Ministry announced that 49 Ukrainian drones were shot down today in three hours, most of them in the Kursk region near the border with Ukraine.

According to the statement posted on the Telegram platform, between 19:00-22:00 (Moscow time, 18:00-21:00 in Greece), 37 drones were shot down in Russia’s Kursk region, part of which remains under the control of Ukrainian forces after last August’s surprise cross-border attack.

Several Telegram channels spoke of a “large number” of drones seen in various areas of Kursk.

The Russian Defense Ministry also reported that drones were intercepted in the Bryansk and Belgorod regions, as well as in Crimea – the Ukrainian peninsula that Russia seized and annexed in 2014.