Drones from Ukraine Attack Russian Fuel Depots
The latest in Kyiv’s string of strikes against Russian oil and gas facilities since Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, officials said on Wednesday, saw Ukrainian drones striking two fuel warehouses in Russia and setting them on fire.
Vasily Golubev, the governor of Rostov area in southwest Russia, posted on Telegram that a “fire in a fuel depot” was the result of a drone strike.
Golubev noted that although firefighters were still fighting the fire, no residential homes were in danger and no one was hurt.
Confirming the attack to AFP, a representative from Ukraine’s defense intelligence agency stated that the plant “is directly involved in the supply of the Russian occupation forces.”
Approximately 200 kilometers (125 miles) from the Ukrainian border, near the city of Proletarsk in the Rostov region, a sizable fire has been burning for ten days at another oil storage complex following a different drone strike.
In the northern Kirov area, the Russian city of Kotelnich was assaulted by Ukrainian drones, as stated by Alexander Sokolov, the governor of the region, on his Telegram channel on Wednesday.
About 1,100 kilometers (685 miles) from the Ukrainian border, the drone attack was purportedly the first in the area since Russia began its invasion in 2022.
According to Sokolov, there were two drones shot down and three that fell on the plant’s property and caught fire. The flames were “quickly extinguished” and no casualties or damages were reported.
In what it has described as just retaliation for Moscow’s strikes on its energy infrastructure, Kyiv has been attacking Russian oil and gas installations on several occasions since the conflict started.
Volodymyr Zelensky, the president of Ukraine, commended his troops earlier this month for striking Russian oil installations, claiming that the strikes will contribute to a “just end” to the fighting.
AFP
