Editor's Note: This is a developing story and is being updated.
Drone attacks targeting Russia's Krasnodar Krai region caused fires at two oil depots overnight on July 6, while also damaging a communications tower, various Russian media outlets reported.
Throughout the night, multiple drone attacks were reported in the Eisk, Leningrad, and Pavlov communities of Krasnodar Krai.
As a result of the attack on an oil depot, the fragments of a downed drone caused a fire at one fuel storage tank in the village of Pavlov, as well as another fire at a oil depot in the Leningrad community, Russian state-controlled outlet RIA Novosti reported.
A cell tower was also reportedly damaged in the village of Eisk as a result of another downed drone.
No casualties were reported as of 4:30 a.m. local time.
The Kyiv Independent could not independently verify the claims, and Ukraine's military has not yet commented on the alleged attacks.
In recent months, Ukrainian forces have launched a series of drone strikes aimed atdamaging Russia's oil industry, the profits of which fuel Moscow's war efforts.
Overnight on July 5, Veniamin Kondratyev, governor of Russia's Krasnodar Krai, claimed that a drone attack on the city of Primorsko-Akhtarsk killed a six-year-old girl and injured at least five others, including a child. Ukraine's military has not yet commented on the alleged attacks.
Russia's Defense Ministry claimed on July 6 that it had downed eight drones overnight over Kursk and Belgorod oblasts. The Ministry's claims did not provide mention of downed drones over Krasnodar Krai.