At the beginning of the environment, Moscow announced that a fire occurred in a fuel depot in Krasnodar due to an attack by drones launched by Ukrainian forces on Russian territory, east of the border with Ukraine. The emergency coordination service in Russia reported that "the fire started due to the debris (Caucasian) after the fall of Shchetkis' Russian zenith rocket boosters," adding that 105 rescuers were on the scene after the incident without information about the casualties.
The preceding attack by drones took place during the period when Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accused his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin of "practical deviation" from American proposals for complete cessation of hostilities.
