Russian Tuapse oil terminal fire extinguished after attack

A fire at a marine terminal in Russia's Black Sea port of Tuapse was extinguished following Friday's Ukrainian drone strike, Krasnodar region emergency authorities said on Telegram.

The hit was the latest in a series of attacks on the port and the nearby Rosneft PJSC refinery since April 16. The resultant fires have typically taken a few days days to extinguish. Some 130 people and more than 40 pieces of equipment were deployed to contain the latest blaze.

Russia declared a regional emergency earlier this week in Tuapse, a city of over 60,000 that hosts one of the country's largest Black Sea ports.

Previous strikes caused an oil-product spill in the Tuapse River, and more than 13,000 cubic meters (459,090 cubic feet) of contaminated soil and oil-water mixture have been collected from three cleanup sites. Local authorities warned residents against using unfiltered water or going outside due to toxic air quality.

Russia and Ukraine continued to exchange attacks on Saturday as the conflict, now into its fifth year, grinds on with no word on a resumption of peace negotiations.

Air defense units intercepted and destroyed 338 Ukrainian drones over the territories of 17 regions including Belgorod, Moscow and Krasnodar, according to the Russian defense ministry.

In Ukraine, two people were killed and seven injured in Kherson after a Russian drone strike on an city minibus, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on social media, adding that the injured were civilians.

So far this week Russia has fired about 1,600 drones, nearly 1,100 guided aerial bombs, and three missiles against Ukraine, Zelenskyy added.

Russia attacked critical infrastructure of Ukraine's Naftogaz Group for a second day, Chief Executive Officer Sergii Koretskyi said on Facebook.

A gas pipeline in the Zaporizhzhia region was damaged after being struck by an aerial bomb. That followed the attack on a gas production facility in the Kharkiv region of Ukraine's northeast on Friday. Russia has attacked Naftogaz Group facilities 99 times so far in 2026, Koretskyi wrote.

Separately, Zelenskyy posted on X about "unusual activity along sections of the Ukraine-Belarus border" earlier in the week. "We are closely documenting everything and keeping the situation under control. If necessary, we will react," he said.

The mapping service AMK Mapping said in a Telegram post that two Belarusian military helicopters had been detected by Ukrainian radars within a few kilometers (miles) of the nations' border.

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This story was originally published May 2, 2026 at 10:48 AM.