Ukraine has commonly hit Russian oil and fuel infrastructure in response to assaults by itself territory.
An in a single day Ukrainian drone assault has sparked a fireplace at an oil depot in Sochi, the southwestern Russian resort that hosted the 2014 Winter Olympic Video games, native authorities say.
The assault got here a day after Ukraine’s army stated it struck the Ryazan oil refinery in central Russia, inflicting a fireplace. Ukraine has commonly hit Russian oil and fuel infrastructure in response to assaults by itself territory since Russia started its warfare in February 2022.
“Sochi suffered a drone assault by the Kyiv regime final night time,” the governor of Russia’s Krasnodar area, Veniamin Kondratiev, stated on the Telegram messaging software on Sunday.
Drone wreckage hit an “oil tank, which induced a fireplace”, Kondratiev stated.
Sochi Mayor Andrei Proshunin stated there have been no victims and “the scenario is completely beneath management”, including that firefighters had been extinguishing the blaze.
Air site visitors was briefly suspended at Sochi’s airport however has resumed, Russia’s air transport regulator Rosaviatsia stated.
Air strikes on Sochi, about 400km (250 miles) southeast of the Ukrainian border, are comparatively uncommon in contrast with different Russian cities. Nonetheless, Ukrainian drone assaults killed two individuals within the area late final month, in response to native authorities.
Ukrainian officers haven’t commented on the hearth.
Kyiv has warned it is going to intensify its air strikes in opposition to Russia in response to a rise in Russian assaults on its territory in current weeks, which have killed dozens of civilians.
On Sunday, Ukraine’s air pressure stated on Telegram that Russia had launched 76 assault drones and 7 missiles focusing on Ukraine in a single day, hanging eight places all through Ukraine. Ukraine’s air defence items destroyed 60 of the drones and one missile, it stated.
Within the front-line areas of Zaporizhia and Kherson, no less than three individuals had been killed and greater than 12 injured in Russian assaults over the 24 hours into Sunday morning, regional governors stated.
A Russian missile strike on the town of Mykolaiv in southern Ukraine additionally injured no less than seven individuals and destroyed or broken dozens of houses and civilian infrastructure, the regional governor stated.
Within the early days of the warfare, the Mykolaiv area stood on the entrance strains, dealing with frequent artillery strikes and aerial assaults. Even after Russian forces had been pushed again in late 2022, drones and missiles have remained a relentless hazard there.
Russia additionally launched a short-lived missile assault on Kyiv in a single day, however there have been no stories of accidents or harm.
In July, United States President Donald Trump stated he would implement “extreme tariffs” on Russia until a peace deal is reached by early September. Final week, Trump stated he would give Putin 10 to 12 days, which means Trump desires peace efforts to make progress by Thursday to Saturday.
To date, the Kremlin has rejected the concept of an enduring ceasefire in Ukraine.
Final week, Russian President Vladimir Putin stated he needed peace however his calls for for ending Moscow’s army offensive had been “unchanged”.
These calls for embrace Ukraine abandoning a few of its personal territory and ending its ambitions to hitch NATO.
