Ukraine On Tuesday, he claimed responsibility for a night drone attack against one oil installation Russian that caused a huge firein the longest-range operation by kyiv forces in a border region.
The attack set fire to a crude oil tank in the Russian region of Rostov and more than 200 firefighters were working at the scene, according to the region’s governor, Vasily Golubev.
The flames covered an area of 5,000 square meters, but there were no casualtiesindicated the Russian Ministry of Emergencies.
Anonymous sources Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) They have claimed responsibility for the attack in statements to several Ukrainian media. According to these sources, the infrastructures attacked belong to two different oil products companies.
The drones hit two crude oil tanks that have 22 tanksaccording to statements by a Ukrainian official on condition of anonymity.
According to Russian Telegram channels, residents of Azov heard explosions near the port and train station, where oil facilities are located. Those same Telegram channels have published a video of a large column of fire and smoke rising into the sky over the city of Azov.
It was not possible to confirm that claim at first.
The kyiv authorities usually avoid commenting on the attacks on Russian territory, although they sometimes make indirect allusions to them.
Ukrainian drone developers have gone extending the range of their weapons for months, in an attempt by kyiv to compensate for its disadvantages on the battlefield. Unmanned vehicles are also an affordable option as Ukraine waits for more Western military aid.
kyiv has attacked in recent months with self-made dronesnumerous refineries and other oil infrastructure within the Russian Federation, in an attempt to decimate the war economy Russian and deprive the Russian Army fighting in Ukraine of some of the fuel it needs.
However, the Russian army puts a lot of pressure on the front line in eastern Ukrainewhere the lack of troops and ammunition in the third year of war has made the defenders vulnerable.
The Ukrainian General Staff has reported that the axis of the front Pokrovskin the eastern Donetsk region, remains the hottest area in the entire area of contact due to constant Russian attacks.
In the middle of the day, “the Russian occupiers” had tried “15 times to improve their positions” heading towards the city of Pokrovsk, which is still in Ukrainian hands.
According to the influential Ukrainian Telegram channel DeepStatewhich reports daily on the course of the war, the Russian forces advanced in the last hours near the towns of Umanske, Arjangelske and Sokolall of them in the region of Donetsk.
In its report on the war this Tuesday, British military intelligence speaks of the “probable” conquest by Russian troops of the town of Novooleksandrivka20 kilometers north of the occupied Avdivka (Donetsk).
“The area has seen intense fighting throughout 2024 and Russia has gradually advanced since the capture of Avdivka in February 2024,” the British report reads.
According to military intelligence in London, The capture of Novooleksandrivka brings Russia closer to a vital highway for the supply of Ukrainian forces in the east.
The Russian authorities have been reporting in recent days and weeks of the improvement of positions and the capture of several towns by their troops.
Ukraine lost the initiative on the front in September last year after having exhausted its counteroffensive with modest advances that in some cases have been reversed by Russia.
After almost half a year without hardly any supplies from the US, kyiv began to receive new military aid from Washington financed with the expected package of more than 60 billion dollars approved by Congress in April, whose ratification was delayed for more than six months due to resistance from part of the Republican Party.
Despite the arrival of new weapons and quantities of artillery ammunition vital to correct the dramatic disadvantage that Ukraine suffered in this chapter for months, kyiv has so far been unable to stop enemy advances or regain the initiative.
(With information from EFE and AP)
