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Beautiful scenery in Russia tonight, as Ukraine hit two refineries throughout the night

This image is a real photograph taken at dusk, depicting an enormous, blazing industrial fire in the distance, accompanied by huge billowing plumes of dark smoke lit orange from the flames. The foreground shows a low-density industrial/commercial area, including a parked white sedan, a semi-cylindrical arched portable structure, low-rise buildings, power lines, and a partially visible sign with Cyrillic text, confirming the location is in Russia. The accompanying post caption uses sarcastic dark humor, referring to the destructive fire, which is purported to be the result of Ukrainian strikes on two Russian oil refineries overnight, as 'beautiful scenery'.
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Beautiful scenery in Russia tonight, as Ukraine hit two refineries throughout the night

Overview

This image is a real photograph taken at dusk, depicting an enormous, blazing industrial fire in the distance, accompanied by huge billowing plumes of dark smoke lit orange from the flames. The foreground shows a low-density industrial/commercial area, including a parked white sedan, a semi-cylindrical arched portable structure, low-rise buildings, power lines, and a partially visible sign with Cyrillic text, confirming the location is in Russia. The accompanying post caption uses sarcastic dark humor, referring to the destructive fire, which is purported to be the result of Ukrainian strikes on two Russian oil refineries overnight, as 'beautiful scenery'.

Origin notes

This content was sourced from an RSS feed of the social platform 9Gag. The photograph is an authentic news image of the reported oil refinery fires following Ukrainian military strikes inside Russian territory, paired with a sarcastic original caption created by a 9Gag user for the post. There are no visible edits to the original photograph itself.

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