Ukraine launched a drone attack on an oil depot in southern Russia last night. No casualties were reported.
Firefighters in the area worked quickly to extinguish the fires.
Ukraine hit another Russian oil depot, the Glubokinskaya oil depot in the Kamensky District, Rostov region. Several tanks is on fire 🔥
— Kvist.P 🇩🇰🇺🇦 (@kvistp) August 28, 2024
According to Russian news, all drones were intercepted 🤷 pic.twitter.com/ENd512RnOT
News authorities familiar with the region used video footage of the fire to identify the oil depot in the Rostov Kamensky district, the same area where earlier in August another fuel storage plant was attacked by Ukraine.
The attack comes as multiple other Russian energy assets continue to burn from Ukrainian drone attacks.
The fire at the oil depot in Proletarsk (Rostov region), caused by a Ukrainian drone, has been burning for more than 8 days, surpassing the previous record set by the Azov oil depot in the same region. In terms of area, this fire is also likely to become the largest ever at a… pic.twitter.com/G19pIXOX1h
— Off the Radar (@offoftheradar) August 26, 2024
Kyiv has said that similar attacks aim to destroy energy and key military infrastructure to curtail Russian military ambitions.
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