(Moscow) – A Ukrainian drone caused a fire at an oil depot in the Rostov region (south) during the night of Friday to Saturday, hundreds of kilometers from the front line.
“After the drone attack, a fire broke out at an oil refinery in the Tsimlyansky district. According to preliminary data, there are no deaths or injuries,” local governor Vasily Golubev said on Telegram.
He said in the morning that the fire had been extinguished.
Meanwhile, the Defense Ministry announced that it had intercepted and destroyed a total of four drones launched by Ukrainian forces over Russian territory, two in the Rostov region, one in the Belgorod region near the Ukrainian border, and one in Kursk, located slightly north of the border with Ukraine, without commenting on the fire at the oil depot.
Ukraine, which has been under Russian attack for more than two years and has seen its energy infrastructure destroyed by a sustained Russian bombing campaign, is launching drone strikes deep inside Russia against energy and logistics sites, which are used in particular by the Russian military for military purposes. Its operations on Ukrainian territory.
