According to Governor Alexander Drozdenko, no one should be injured after the fire. The employees at the terminal were evacuated, according to Drozdenko. The gas terminal Novatek is located in Ust-Luga on the coast of the Gulf of Finland in the Baltic Sea. The terminal is 35 kilometers from the border with Estonia. Supposed to have seen drones in the sky before the fire The cause of the fire is not known. But earlier in the week, drones were shot down over the region, according to Russia. Drones were also seen last night, according to several Russian media. SWITCHING OFF: Governor Alexander Drozdenk has published this photo on Telegram. Photo: HANDOUT / AFP The media write that drones were observed in the air in the time before the fire broke out at the gas terminal. Russian media say residents of the city should have heard a drone and several explosions. Other eyewitnesses are said to have seen drones in the air heading towards St. Petersburg before a fire was reported at the facility. Believes there were two explosions The Russian news agency RIA writes that the fire was triggered by two explosions. Since it broke out, the fire has been limited to a 100 cubic meter fuel depot, writes RIA further. The terminal belongs to the Russian oil company Novatek, which is one of Russia’s largest oil and gas companies. On Thursday, a Ukrainian security source claimed that they were behind an attack on an oil warehouse in the region. Russia has not commented on this, other than the drone shootings in the region which they reported on the same day.
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