
Local residents reported loud noises and sirens going off during the raid.
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The Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked the Slavneft-YANOS oil refinery in the Yaroslavl region.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) attacked the Slavneft-YANOS oil refinery in the Yaroslavl region, which is considered one of the largest in Russia. Local residents said that they heard a roar during the raid; their words were quoted by the portal 76.ru.
“The windows were all closed, plus I slept well. I woke up from a roar. “Very scary,” said Yaroslavl resident Milana.
Other eyewitnesses to the attack admitted that they heard the siren. Some of the residents' walls shook during the raid.
The attack on a refinery in the Yaroslavl region became known on the morning of September 17. As a result of the impact, a fire started at the enterprise; authorities later reported that the fire was extinguished.

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