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Verified footage of fire in south-west Russia after claim of oil refinery strikepublished at 11:17 GMT
Fridon Kiria and Yi Ma
BBC Verify
Earlier this morning the Ukrainian military announced it had struck an oil refinery in Saratov, a city in south-western Russia around 285 miles (460km) from the border with Ukraine.
In the past few hours, eyewitness accounts and videos of the alleged attack began circulating on social media. We have been able to verify one of the clips, which shows fires burning and lighting up the night sky from a distance.
The video appears to have been filmed from a residential area north of the refinery. While the strike is not visible in the clip, we were able to confirm the fires were burning from the direction of the facility.
We verified the video was recorded in Saratov by matching visible buildings with satellite images, while a reverse-image search of screen grabs from the footage suggests it has only emerged online today.
Governor of Saratov region Roman Busargin acknowledged on his Telegram channel last night that a drone strike had taken place, confirming “civilian infrastructure had been damaged” without mentioning the refinery.
In an update this morning, Busargin said one person had been injured after windows were damaged in several houses.
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