Ukraine has often hit Russian oil and fuel infrastructure in response to assaults by itself territory.
An in a single day Ukrainian drone assault has sparked a hearth at an oil depot in Sochi, the southwestern Russian resort that hosted the 2014 Winter Olympic Video games, native authorities say.
The assault got here a day after Ukraine’s navy mentioned it struck the Ryazan oil refinery in central Russia, inflicting a hearth. Ukraine has often hit Russian oil and fuel infrastructure in response to assaults by itself territory since Russia started its war in February 2022.
“Sochi suffered a drone assault by the Kyiv regime final evening,” the governor of Russia’s Krasnodar area, Veniamin Kondratiev, mentioned on the Telegram messaging software on Sunday.
Drone wreckage hit an “oil tank, which brought on a hearth”, Kondratiev mentioned.
Sochi Mayor Andrei Proshunin mentioned there have been no victims and “the state of affairs is completely beneath management”, including that firefighters had been extinguishing the blaze.
Air site visitors was briefly suspended at Sochi’s airport however has resumed, Russia’s air transport regulator Rosaviatsia mentioned.
Air strikes on Sochi, about 400km (250 miles) southeast of the Ukrainian border, are comparatively uncommon in contrast with different Russian cities. Nonetheless, Ukrainian drone assaults killed two individuals within the area late final month, in keeping with native authorities.
Ukrainian officers haven’t commented on the hearth.
Kyiv has warned it should intensify its air strikes in opposition to Russia in response to a rise in Russian assaults on its territory in current weeks, which have killed dozens of civilians.
On Sunday, Ukraine’s air pressure mentioned on Telegram that Russia had launched 76 assault drones and 7 missiles focusing on Ukraine in a single day, hanging eight areas all through Ukraine. Ukraine’s air defence items destroyed 60 of the drones and one missile, it mentioned.
Within the front-line areas of Zaporizhia and Kherson, a minimum of three individuals had been killed and greater than 12 injured in Russian assaults over the 24 hours into Sunday morning, regional governors mentioned.
A Russian missile strike on the town of Mykolaiv in southern Ukraine additionally injured a minimum of seven individuals and destroyed or broken dozens of properties and civilian infrastructure, the regional governor mentioned.
Within the early days of the battle, the Mykolaiv area stood on the entrance strains, dealing with frequent artillery strikes and aerial assaults. Even after Russian forces had been pushed again in late 2022, drones and missiles have remained a continuing hazard there.
Russia additionally launched a short-lived missile assault on Kyiv in a single day, however there have been no reviews of accidents or harm.
In July, United States President Donald Trump mentioned he would implement “extreme tariffs” on Russia except a peace deal is reached by early September. Final week, Trump mentioned he would give Putin 10 to 12 days, that means Trump desires peace efforts to make progress by Thursday to Saturday.
Up to now, the Kremlin has rejected the thought of a long-lasting ceasefire in Ukraine.
Final week, Russian President Vladimir Putin mentioned he needed peace however his calls for for ending Moscow’s navy offensive had been “unchanged”.
These calls for embody Ukraine abandoning a few of its personal territory and ending its ambitions to affix NATO.
