Ukrainian drone attack sparks massive fire at Russian oil depot near Sochi
More than 120 firefighters attempted to extinguish the blaze, sparked after debris from a downed drone struck a fuel tank, Krasnodar regional Gov Veniamin Kondratyev said on Telegram.
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Moscow, 3 Aug
An overnight Ukrainian drone attack on an oil depot near Russia's Black
Sea resort of Sochi sparked a major fire, Russian officials said Sunday, as the
two countries traded strikes.
More than 120 firefighters attempted to extinguish the blaze, sparked
after debris from a downed drone struck a fuel tank, Krasnodar regional Gov
Veniamin Kondratyev said on Telegram. Videos on social media appeared to show
huge pillars of smoke billowing above the oil depot.
Russia's civil aviation authority, Rosaviatsia, temporarily stopped
flights at Sochi's airport.
Further north, authorities in the Voronezh region reported that four
people were wounded in another Ukrainian drone strike.
Russia's Defence Ministry said its air defences shot down 93 Ukrainian
drones over Russia and the Black Sea overnight into Sunday.
Meanwhile, in southern Ukraine, a Russian missile strike hit a
residential area in the city of Mykolaiv, according to the State Emergency
Services, wounding seven people.
The Ukrainian air force said Sunday Russia launched 76 drones and seven missiles against Ukraine. It said 60 drones and one missile were intercepted,
but 16 others and six missiles hit targets across eight locations.
The reciprocal attacks came at the end of one of the deadliest weeks in Ukraine in recent months, after a Russian drone and missile attack on Thursday
killed 31 people, including five children, and wounded over 150.
The continued attacks come after US President Donald Trump gave on Tuesday Russian President Vladimir Putin a shorter deadline — 8 Aug —
for peace efforts to make progress.
Trump said Thursday that special envoy Steve Witkoff is heading to
Russia to push Moscow to agree to a ceasefire in its war with Ukraine and has
threatened new economic sanctions if progress is not made.
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