KYIV: Ukrainian forces staged an in a single day drone assault that set a number of oil storage tanks ablaze close to the city of Azov in southern Russia, a supply in Kyiv advised AFP on Tuesday (Jun 18).
Kyiv has carried out a number of comparable assaults on Russian power services in latest months, arguing they’re honest targets provided that they gasoline Moscow’s army.
Russia has additionally launched dozens of devastating assaults on Ukrainian energy crops all through its two-year invasion, crippling the nation’s power grid.
“Oil product tanks caught fireplace in Azov because of a drone assault. In line with preliminary information, there have been no casualties,” the governor of the native Rostov area, Vasily Golubev, mentioned.
Video revealed by Russia’s emergencies ministry confirmed thick smoke and flames billowing out of what seemed to be a number of oil storage tanks in an undisclosed location.
Ukraine didn’t say what number of drones had been concerned within the assault.
“The (Safety Service of Ukraine) SBU will proceed to impose ‘drone sanctions’ on Russia’s oil refining complicated and scale back the enemy’s financial potential, which supplies the aggressor with sources to wage struggle towards Ukraine,” the defence-linked supply mentioned.
It additionally claimed that SBU drones have carried out greater than 20 profitable assaults on Russian oil services in varied areas.
