Russian oil depot ablaze for two days after Ukraine strike

Russia said Tuesday it had extinguished a fire at a oil depot that blazed for 48 hours after a Ukrainian drone attack.

Kyiv has hit dozens of Russian energy sites and oil depots over the last year in an escalation of attacks inside Russian territory — something it sees as retribution for Moscow’s aerial bombardment of its cities and power stations.

Alexei Smirnov, the Russian governor of the Kursk border region, said Tuesday that “rescuers have extinguised a fire at an oil depot.”

Three fuel tanks were hit in a Ukrainian drone attack in the early hours of Sunday, he added in a post on Telegram. Nobody was injured, he added.

Ukraine’s General Staff claimed Sunday to have hit the Polyova oil depot

in Russia’s Kursk region, just across the border from Ukraine.

Kyiv justified the attack on the depot as it is used “to meet the needs of the Russian armed forces,” the general staff said.

AFP.

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