The Tatarstan government’s press service counted 14 injured by Sunday afternoon, 3 of them in the Nizhnekamsk central district hospital, and 2 dead; a multi-storey residential block was partly burned, with windows and frames broken. The Investigative Committee opened a case under article 205 of the Criminal Code, a terrorist act.
Russian and Ukrainian outlets, as Interpressnews relayed them, named the refineries as the target and a refinery at Slavyansk-on-Kuban in Krasnodar region as a second. The official statements describe the housing damage and say nothing about the plants.
Donald Trump spoke to reporters in Ireland on Sunday. Volodymyr Zelensky, he said, “has to do one thing: he has to stop knocking out diesel fuel in Russia.” Then: “There are plenty of other targets. Don’t hit diesel fuel. That’s hurting the world.” US diesel reached $6.06 a gallon on Friday against $3.71 a year earlier, Al Jazeera noted.
Russia’s ban on diesel exports by producers runs to 30 September inclusive; 16 days remain. The ban on everyone else’s diesel and on all petrol exports runs to 31 January, and the exemption for intergovernmental agreements is the door through which Tajikistan’s book passes, while Kyrgyzstan’s $1,050 reference price for diesel stands above the Russian exchange.
The Defence Ministry’s counts for the weekend name the seas as well as the regions. Between 20:00 on Saturday and 08:00 on Sunday it reported 389 drones over 11 regions, Krasnodar region, Crimea, Tatarstan, Chuvashia and the waters of the Azov, Black and Caspian seas; between 08:00 and 20:00 on Sunday 140; between 20:00 on Sunday and 08:00 on Monday 399, over 9 regions including Astrakhan, plus Crimea, Krasnodar region and the Black Sea.
There are plenty of other targets. Don’t hit diesel fuel. That’s hurting the world.
At 18:15 on Sunday the ministry added a vessel: a dry-cargo ship in the port of Odesa that had delivered cargo for the Ukrainian armed forces, in its words; no name, flag or casualties. At 03:21 on Monday Rosaviatsia restricted flights at Vladikavkaz, Grozny and Makhachkala, whose port caught fire from drone debris on 10 September.
Ankara’s press-release index reached number 178 on Sunday, on Hakan Fidan’s visit to Syria, after the drone attacks on Saudi Arabia and the renewed US lifting of the arms embargo on the Greek Cypriots on Saturday; the tug Tedy, hit near Odesa on 9 September with 2 Azerbaijani crew dead, has not appeared in it. The CPC consortium’s channel posted its safety-day competition on 9 September and nothing since; its last operational statement is dated 30 July. Azeri Light closed Friday at $120.02 a barrel at Augusta, against the $65 in Baku’s budget.