(Reuters) -Ukrainian drones set oil tanks on fireplace at an depot in Russia’s Rostov area, Russian Telegram channels reported on Wednesday.
Russia’s air defence items destroyed 4 drones over the Rostov area in a single day, the Russian defence ministry and Rostov’s governor, Vasily Golubev, mentioned on the Telegram messaging app, however made no point out of an assault on an oil depot.
The Baza Telegram channel, which is near Russia’s safety companies, mentioned that three tanks have been burning at an oil depot within the Kamensky district of the Rostov area after two drones fell on the world.
Movies posted on Russian social media confirmed what regarded like giant tanks ablaze at evening. Reuters was in a position to establish the placement of one of many movies as in Rostov’s Kamensky district.
There was no fast remark from Ukraine.
A gasoline storage depot within the Kamensky district was attacked in early August as properly.
The assault comes whereas tanks have been nonetheless on fireplace at one other Rostov’s oil depot, within the Proletarsk district, some 10 days after a Ukrainian assault, Russian Telegram channels report.
Individually, Alexander Gusev, the governor of the Voronezh area that borders Ukraine, mentioned particles from a Ukraine-launched drone over the area sparked a hearth “near explosive objects.” Gusev added that there was no detonation.
The hearth had been extinguished, Gusev mentioned on Telegram, and residents from two settlements who have been evacuated from their houses have been returning.
The Russian defence ministry mentioned eight assault drones have been destroyed over the Voronezh area, however it offered no additional element.
Russian officers typically don’t disclose the complete extent of injury inflicted by Ukrainian assaults.
Each side deny concentrating on civilians within the 30-month-old conflict that Russia launched with a full-scale invasion on its smaller neighbour. Kyiv says that its air assaults intention to destroy power, transport and army infrastructure that is key to Moscow’s general conflict effort.
