A fuel depot in the Russian region of Briansk that the Russian Federation used to supply its troops was attacked last night in a joint operation by the drone force of the ukrainian army and the kyiv military intelligenceas stated this Wednesday by the Ukrainian General Staff.
“According to the information available, the warehouse was hit and a fire broke out,” reads the statement from the General Staff, which qualifies that “massive” fire.
The extent of the damage and the exact weapons used in the attack were unclear, although Russia has repeatedly warned that Ukraine’s use of ATACMS Americans to attack sovereign Russian territory risks triggering a broader war.
He Russian Defense Ministry said its air defense units destroyed 14 Ukrainian drones overnight over the region of Brianskbordering Ukraine. He did not specify which planes were hit.
The governor of Briansk, Alexander Bogomazhe said on his channel Telegram that a production facility suffered a brief fire as a result of the attack. He did not specify which facilities were damaged.
The Soviet-built oil pipeline Druzhbawhich pumps oil from the fields of Western Siberia and the sea Caspio to the markets of Europe, crosses the region of Briansklike the Baltic Pipeline System, which reaches the sea Baltic.
Telegram channel ASTRA said a refinery had been hit and showed flames leaping into the sky.
About 750 kilometers to the south, the Russian port of It vibrates was hit by missiles from Ukrainedamaging an industrial facility and numerous cars, said the acting governor of the region of Rostov.
“According to preliminary information, no one was injured.”said Yuri Slyusar in the messaging app Telegram.
slyusar He said 14 cars had caught fire, but did not reveal details about what else was hit or the extent of the attack.
The disaster area of Taganroga city of about a quarter of a million inhabitants located on the Russian sea coast Negro and not far from the border with Ukrainehas been cordoned off by the police, he said in Telegram Svetlana Kambulovamayor of the city.
The attack partially damaged a boiler building, leaving 27 apartment buildings without heat, he said. Kambulova.
Russia It has an air base near the city, from which, according to military analysts, the Russian air force operates drones, bombers and other weapons to attack Ukraine.
After 1,000 days of war in Ukrainewhich Russia began with a large-scale invasion in 2022, kyiv used missiles for the first time ATACMS Americans last November to attack Russia, taking advantage of a permit recently granted by the Government of the outgoing president of the United States, Joe Biden.
days later, Russia fired an intermediate-range hypersonic ballistic missile against the Ukrainian city of Dnipro.
Russia has since reported that he had shot down at least 15 missiles ATACMS. The president Vladimir Putin He said kyiv’s use of Western-made missiles meant the West’s “direct involvement” in an armed conflict with Russia.
(With information from Reuters and EFE)
