May 31 (Reuters) - An oil depot in the Krasnodar region

was on fire and people were injured after Ukraine's air strike

early on Friday targeting oil facilities, the governor of the

southern Russian region said.

"The situation is more serious in the Temryuk region - the

infrastructure of the oil depot there was damaged by an air

strike: three tanks with petroleum products are damaged and

burning," Krasnodar Governor Veniamin Kondratyev said on the

Telegram messaging app.

"The fire is being extinguished now... Unfortunately, there

are injured among the employees of the oil depot."

Reuters could not independently verify the reports.