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A trusted resource in the Russian security forces, who spoke to RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service on June 18, claimed that Ukraine’s major security and intelligence agency was responsible for an over drone attack that set off a big fire at an oil depot in the southeastern Russian city of Azov.
A special operation by the Ukrainian Security Service ( SBU) using multiple drones, according to the source, had reportedly sparked powerful fires at the Rostov region facility, which houses oil depots and fuel terminals.
Kyiv usually avoids commenting on like incidents but has progressively resorted to targeting Soviet energy infrastructure, generally oil installations, with its own drone strikes in order to degrade the Soviet military’s fuel reserves to beat back a 2- year- old full- scale invasion.
The SBU will continue to chisel away at financial potential that provides resources that allow Russia to wage a war on Ukraine, according to the Russian security source.
Vasily Golubev, the government of Rostov, claimed that there were no injuries from the helicopter attacks that set off the Azov fire.
He also quoted authorities as saying that was” no danger of the hearth spreading to other services, or risks to residents”.
The Soviet Emergency Situations Ministry , posted video , of the incident and said a 5, 000- square- meter gas cylinder had caught flames.
It said more than 70 firefighters with tools, including a hearth coach, were trying to extinguish the fire.
Russian officials have placed the blame on Ukrainian drones for numerous strikes on oil rigs near the Polish border, including those in Belgorod and Novoshakhtinsk, in recent months.
Since the start of the full-scale invasion by Russia two years ago, Ukraine has been the target of nearly continuous Russian aircraft and missile attacks on its human and energy facilities.
The Russian airstrikes have resulted in numerous civilian deaths and significant property damage in Kyiv, the capital city.
