Ruchyi oil depot
Oil depot in the St Petersburg area.
On 18 October, St Petersburg governor Alexander Beglov said firefighters were tackling a fire at the Ruchyi oil depot without identifying the weapon.
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Ruchyi is an oil depot in St Petersburg, Russia. Rosneft identified it in an announcement about acquiring the Petersburg Fuel Company network. The facility belongs to the city's land-based fuel-storage and distribution system.
Ruchyi and Petersburg Oil Terminal are separate facilities; Governor Alexander Beglov named fires at each site separately on 18 October.
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On 18 October, St Petersburg governor Alexander Beglov said firefighters were putting out a fire at the Ruchyi oil depot. His account identified the facility and the fire but did not name a weapon or attribute responsibility.
Beglov separately named a fire at Petersburg Oil Terminal. Ruchyi and the terminal are different fuel facilities, so a weapon claim about one cannot be transferred to the other. His statements support a fire at Ruchyi during the wider raid but give no more specific account of how it was struck.
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