14 June 2026
In the Rybinsk District of the Yaroslavl Region, a “fuel oil rain” fell after Ukrainian drones struck the Temp plant, a fuel storage facility belonging to the Federal Agency for State Reserves. Local online groups are posting photos of plants and objects covered in black droplets and a continuous oil film.
Residents fear the soil will be contaminated for years to come. “I’m shocked. We arrived , and our entire dacha, everything, was covered in this oil. All the plants, everything. The rain has passed,” said one 76.RU reader. A video was also posted online of the Volgotnya River covered in an oil slick in the village of Volkovo, 20 kilometers from Rybinsk, located on the Volga. Rospotrebnadzor did not comment on the situation.
Ukrainian drones attacked the Yaroslavl region on the night of June 14. Governor Mikhail Evrayev reported “hits on industrial fuel storage facilities” followed by a fire . Eyewitness videos surfaced online showing thick black smoke billowing from the Temp plant in Rybinsk.
The Security Service of Ukraine reported “at least three major fires in a storage tank farm comprising more than 60 tanks” with a capacity of 2,000 to 5,000 cubic meters. According to the agency, the facility stores gasoline, diesel fuel, and other fuels and lubricants. “From here, the Russian Federation supplies petroleum products to its northeastern regions and ensures strategic fuel reserves for the army,” the SBU noted.
Similar “oil rains” previously fell in Tuapse and Ryazan after strikes on local oil refineries, as well as in Perm, where a Transneft linear production and control station was damaged.
Such rains are hazardous to health. Skin contact can cause burns or allergies. The air during and after “oil rain” is saturated with harmful substances: soot, sulfur oxides, and benzene, a class I carcinogen. Long-term exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons from the rain increases the risk of cancer. The risk of chronic lung disease and cardiovascular pathologies also increases. Children whose mothers breathed such air during pregnancy may experience developmental delays.
Nice! What better way is there to feed fires than to have oil rain on them?