Local officials say an oil depot caught fire in Russia’s southwestern Rostov region following a Ukrainian drone attack in the early hours of Saturday. It is the latest long-range strike by Kyiv’s forces on a border region.
KYIV, Ukraine — An oil depot caught fire in Russia ’s southwestern Rostov region Saturday following a Ukrainian drone attack in the early hours, local officials said, in the latest long-range strike by Kyiv ’s forces on a border region.on Russia n soil, targeting refineries and oil terminals in an effort to slow down the Kremlin’s war machine.
Rostov regional Gov. Vasily Golubev said a drone attack had caused a blaze spanning 200 square meters , but there were no casualties. Some five hours after he reported the fire on Telegram, Golubev said the fire had been extinguished. In addition to two drones being intercepted over the Rostov region, Russian air defense systems overnight destroyed two drones over the country’s western Kursk and Belgorod regions, the Russian Ministry of Defense said Saturday.
Ukraine’s air defenses, meanwhile, intercepted four of the five drones launched by Russia overnight, the Ukrainian Air Force said Saturday morning. Mykola Oleschuk, commander of Ukraine’s Air Forces, said the fifth drone left Ukrainian airspace in the direction of Belarus.
Oleksandr Prokudin, governor of the Kherson region that is also partly occupied, said Saturday that one person had been killed and six wounded as a result of Russian shelling over the previous day.
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