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Oil refinery fires, 876 rubles stolen at a train station, and pensioners scammed with digital rubles: NeMoskva news overnight

🔹 The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine announced strikes on Russian TANECO oil refineries in Nizhnekamsk and "Slavic" in Slavyansk-on-Kuban, where fires broke out on the night of September 13. Additionally, the Ukrainian command reported that a UAV storage and launch site had been hit. Millerovo Rostov region, and also clarified the consequences of the September 11 attack on Saratov An oil refinery where a primary oil refining unit and a main pipeline were damaged.

🔹 In Transbaikal Territory in the villages Shishkino и Lower Mill A quarantine has been imposed due to an outbreak of a cattle disease called blackleg. According to the State Veterinary Service, the infection poses no danger to humans, but infected animals are prohibited from being slaughtered or moved to prevent the spread of spores. Sick cattle are isolated, and healthy animals are vaccinated without forced removal.

🔹 In St. Petersburg A court has remanded the management of the Moscow Railway Station in custody for allegedly stealing money from a passenger. Station Manager Artur Zhuravlev, his deputy Olga Sidor, and storage room attendant Lyubov Kulkova were placed under arrest. According to investigators, they orchestrated a scheme to misappropriate lost property: when a backpack containing over 876 rubles in cash in rubles and foreign currency arrived at the storage room, Kulkova concealed the money from the receipt and handed it over to Sidor, who, along with Zhuravlev, who hid the money in her safe, refused to return it to its owner.

🔹 In Buryatia students Ust-Barguzinskaya A high school switched to distance learning after a bear was spotted nearby swimming across the Barguzin River the day before. In the village of Ust-Barguzin, the predator broke into a trash can. Earlier, another bear attacked a young shepherd near the Buryat village of Inzagatuy. His father tried to save him, but one of the bullets struck his son, and the bear escaped.

🔹 Cybersecurity experts have warned of a new telephone scam: scammers are convincing senior citizens to forcibly convert their pensions into digital rubles. The scammers impersonate employees of the Bank of Russia or commercial banks and offer to "opt out" of the supposedly mandatory conversion of payments, tricking them into providing one-time SMS codes to access their personal accounts.

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