The final fire at the Tikhoretsk oil depot has been contained.
Two fires that started at an oil depot in Tikhoretsk after an air strike have been extinguished, and a third fire has been contained.
As reported by the "Caucasian Knot," last night in the suburbs of Tikhoretsk, a fire broke out at an oil depot due to falling UAV debris. According to authorities, there are no injuries.
On the night of March 12, a fire also broke out at an oil depot in the suburbs of Tikhoretsk as a result of a UAV attack. The fire, which covered 3,800 square meters, was extinguished on the morning of March 13.
Two of the three fires at the oil depot outside Tikhoretsk have been extinguished, and the remaining one was contained at 1:09 p.m. Moscow time, the Kuban emergency response center reported on its Telegram channel.
"Twenty fire crews, fire and rescue personnel, and specialists from the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations are involved in the firefighting effort," the report stated.
According to Transneft, the Tikhoretskaya oil depot is a key oil transportation hub in southern Russia. It is designed to pump oil through the Tikhoretsk-Novorossiysk-3 main oil pipeline towards the Sheskharis transshipment complex, industry publication Neftegaz.ru reported. According to Transneft, oil is transported through this facility towards Novorossiysk's export terminals for subsequent loading into tankers.
As a reminder, after the previous fire at the oil depot, sanitary officials advised local residents to remain indoors and close their windows. Rospotrebnadzor found that permissible concentrations of harmful substances in the air were exceeded.
Any fire of this scale poses a threat to human health, environmentalist Valery Brinikh previously noted. "The air may contain elevated concentrations of hazardous substances, making it difficult to breathe and 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."
In September 2025, the Krasnodar Krai banned the dissemination of information about drone attacks and their consequences, as well as the filming of air defense systems, military installations, and critical infrastructure. In December 2025, the Kuban authorities introduced fines for filming aerial attacks and air defense systems. The "Caucasian Knot" published a corresponding bill of the regional legislative assembly.