– Ukrainian drone strikes hit Russia’s oil infrastructure overnight, damaging a tanker and an oil refinery in ​Taganrog and striking an oil depot in Armavir, Russian regional ‌officials and Ukrainian military said on Saturday.Rostov regional governor Yury Slyusar said on Telegram that fires on the tanker and in the port of Taganrog – a ​city of about 240,000 – had been extinguished, with no oil ​spill reported. Two people were injured, he said.

The city’s ⁠mayor, Svetlana Kambulova, said a local state of emergency, introduced on ​May 27, had been extended. Russia’s Defence Ministry said that its forces ​had downed 127 drones overnight.In the neighbouring Krasnodar region, authorities in Armavir, which has a population of 185,000, said a fire at an oil depot in ​the city’s industrial zone had been brought under control and ​that there were no injuries.Rostov governor Slyusar said that almost 50 drones had been ‌downed ⁠in his region, with attacks reported across the province, which borders Ukraine’s Donbas, the focus of fighting between Russia and Ukraine.

Outside Taganrog, he said, only minor damage was reported.