MOSCOW: An in a single day Ukrainian drone assault sparked a fireplace at an oil depot in Sochi, the southwestern Russian resort that hosted the 2014 Winter Olympic Video games, native authorities stated Sunday (Aug 3).
“Sochi suffered a drone assault by the Kyiv regime final evening,” the governor of Russia’s Krasnodar area, Veniamine Kondratiev, stated on Telegram.
Drone wreckage hit an “oil tank, which precipitated a fireplace”, he stated.
Ukraine has often hit Russian oil and fuel infrastructure in response to assaults by itself territory since Russia started its offensive in February 2022.
In a single day, 127 firefighters had been working to extinguish the blaze, Kondratiev stated. Pictures, broadcast by Russian media however whose authenticity AFP couldn’t confirm, confirmed flames and thick plumes of black smoke rising from the positioning.
Air visitors was suspended at Sochi airport however resumed shortly afterwards, Russia’s air transport regulator Rosaviatsia stated.
Air strikes on Sochi, round 400km from the Ukrainian border, are comparatively uncommon in comparison with another Russian cities.
Nonetheless, Ukrainian drone assaults killed two folks there late final month, in accordance with native authorities.
Ukrainian authorities had not commented on the fireplace.
Kyiv has warned it would intensify its air strikes in opposition to Russia in response to a rise in Russian assaults on its territory in current weeks, which have left dozens of civilians lifeless.
Final week, US President Donald Trump gave his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, a ten-day ultimatum, until next Friday, to finish the battle in Ukraine.
The airstrikes and combating have not abated, nonetheless, and the Kremlin has rejected the thought of a long-lasting ceasefire in Ukraine, which it sees as a present to Kyiv’s troops.
