Residents of Ust-Labinsk were forced to evacuate due to a fire at an oil depot.

A fire broke out at an oil depot in Ust-Labinsk after a drone attack. Sixty people were evacuated from nearby homes. Rospotrebnadzor urged residents not to open windows or go outside.

As reported by "Caucasian Knot," on June 2, a drone attack started a fire at an oil refinery in the village of Ilsky in the Seversky District. The fire was extinguished on the same day.

In Ust-Labinsk, a fire broke out on the territory of an oil depot "due to a drone attack," the Kuban task force reported today on its Telegram channel.

"According to preliminary information, there are no casualties. 60 people were evacuated from nearby houses to a safe distance. The glass in the buildings was damaged," the publication said.

167 people and 54 pieces of equipment are involved in extinguishing the fire, the report noted.

The regional department of Rospotrebnadzor, in connection with the fire in the Ust-Labinsk district "and the existing risks," published a memo for local residents on its Telegram channel.

The publication contains recommendations to "avoid being outdoors, do not open windows, and spend more time Wet cleaning, replacing contact lenses with glasses, drinking more fluids, rinsing your eyes, nose, and throat, quitting smoking, and using masks and respirators when going outside.

"If you experience symptoms of an acute illness or malaise (shortness of breath, cough, insomnia), or if chronic illnesses worsen, you should consult a doctor," the department stated.

The Ust-Labinsk administration and Mayor Roman Perevalov had not commented on the situation on their Telegram channels as of 12:00 Moscow time.

Proximity to oil depots and refineries creates problems for Kuban residents

As a reminder, proximity to oil depots and refineries creates problems for Kuban residents due to aerial attacks. For example, residents of the village of Ilsky, where an oil refinery is located, regularly suffer from drone attacks. Specifically, on February 17, two people were injured in a drone attack in the village and hospitalized. Four private homes were also damaged.

The Ilsky Oil Refinery itself has also experienced multiple incidents involving drone attacks. Specifically, on September 7, 2025, equipment at the Ilsky Oil Refinery caught fire as a result of an attack. The Ilsky Oil Refinery is built "literally on the outskirts" of the village and is located just meters from the residential area, and any fire at the refinery poses a health risk, Kuban environmentalists previously told the "Caucasian Knot."

On May 13, a drone attack was also recorded in the village of Volna in the Temryuk District. A fire broke out at the plant, injuring one person. The village has previously been linked to drone attacks. Specifically, on February 17, an oil tank caught fire there, and the fire was extinguished on February 18. Two days earlier, on February 15, two fires totaling 2,200 square meters broke out in the village of Volna after an aerial attack. One was extinguished that evening, the other the following day.

On the night of March 12, a fire also broke out at an oil depot near Tikhoretsk as a result of a drone attack. The fire covered 3,800 square meters and was extinguished on the morning of March 13. Sanitary authorities advised local residents to stay indoors and close their windows. Rospotrebnadzor has detected exceedances of permissible concentrations of harmful substances in the air.

Any fire of this scale poses a threat to human health, ecologist Valery Brinikh previously noted. "The air can contain elevated concentrations of hazardous substances, making it difficult to breathe and potentially damaging the lungs. In this case, there are also all sorts of man-made problems, because diesel fuel and other substances are burning, and the entire periodic table could be involved," he told the "Caucasian Knot."

Four fires broke out at an oil refinery and a sea terminal in Tuapse between April 16 and May 1 following drone attacks. Additionally, on April 24, after booms broke due to rising river water levels, an oil spill occurred into the Black Sea. The environmental consequences of the attacks on Tuapse's oil infrastructure can be found in the Caucasian Knot report "Fires and 'Oil Rains': Key Information on the Environmental Disaster in Tuapse".