Russian oil warehouse in Sochi set fire to the Ukrainian drone strike

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The Ukrainian drone hit a major oil warehouse in the southern Russian city of Sochi on Saturday night, which led to a large fire, as Kiev photographed long -range drones in response to the escalating Moscow attacks.

Ukrainian President Folodimir Zellinski said in an evening speech on Saturday that “we are grateful for our long -term operations on Russian soil.” He said that he was briefed by Ukrainian security chief, Vasil Maleyuk, for the strikes. “Each of them is tangible to the enemy, and our operations will continue,” added Zellinski.

The waves of drones and Russian missiles have regularly targeted the Ukrainian capital in recent weeks in some of the city’s locks in the war on a large scale for 42 months.

Ukraine targeted the Russian infrastructure with long -term strikes, and on Sunday, Russian officials reported that the strike was on the oil facility in the Adler area near the Sochi city of the Black Sea. The mayor said that there were no losses.

“In the Adler area, the drones fell in a petroleum products storage tank, which led to a fire,” regional ruler Vinjamin Condateev said in a statement.

Common videos on social media showed the moment of influence and God’s ball rose above the facility. On Sunday morning, the Sochi mayor said that the fire in the fuel tank was released, although the broader fire continued. Sochi Airport was temporarily closed.

The oil facility is owned by Rosneft in the Russian state.

Officials said that Ukrainian drones also targeted an oil -owned oil facility in the Sochi area last week, killing two people. Other strikes targeted oil facilities throughout central Russia.

Thirty -one people were killed in Kiev on July 31 in one of the most unmanned and combined aircraft attacks in the Ukrainian capital since the beginning of the year. Three hundred drones and eight missiles were launched that night on Ukraine, and the capital was mainly targeted.

The attack was followed by US President Donald Trump 10 days warning To the Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, to agree to the ceasefire in Ukraine or face more strict sanctions.

SBU, SBU, said on Thursday that long -range drones also targeted a military factory to produce electronic communication equipment for aircraft control, artillery systems and mobile driving functions in Penza.

Ukrainian drones also struck oil refineries, a railway sub -station in addition to a Russian military airport on the same night. According to the airport, the airport was used to launch the Kamikase drones designed from Iran, which then continued to strike Ukrainian cities in increasingly huge waves.

The escalating air battles come against the background of the summer attack of Russia in southeastern Ukraine. There, Russian forces have been advancing as soon as possible since November and attacked the main Ukrainian strongholds in Boukerrovsk, Kostyantynivka and Kupyansk and threatening them.

Deepstate, a Ukrainian military analytical group and has relations with the Ministry of Defense, on Sunday evaluated that Russia occupied 564 square kilometers of Ukrainian lands in July, which is nearly the same rate of progress in June. And note that the Russian forces are still taking great losses.

On Saturday, the Russian forces also targeted a bridge in the southern regional capital of Jahson with a mutawa air bomb, according to the local Ukrainian authorities. The videos published on the Internet showed great damage to the bridge, and the authorities urged the residents who live on the island that connects it to the central region of the city to evacuate due to the difficulties of the region with aid.

Participated in additional reports by Christopher Miller