A Ukrainian drone attack caused a fire in an oil deposit in Sochi, a coastal city in southwest Russia known for welcoming the 2014 Olympic Games, local authorities said on Sunday, August 3.
Ukraine belongs regularly to the Russian infrastructure of oil and gas, in response to attacks on its own territory from the beginning of the assault at Russian scale in February 2022.
“Sochi has suffered a drone attack from the kyiv regime that night,” said the governor of the Russian region of Krasnodar, Véniamine Kondratiev on Telegram.
The debris of a drone hit a “deposit of oil products, which caused a fire,” he said. During the night, 127 firefighters worked to turn off the fire, according to the governor.
The images, transmitted by the Russian media, but of which AFP could not verify authenticity, showed a fire and thick black smoke feathers. Air traffic was interrupted at Sochi airport, before resuming a little later, according to the Rosaviatsia Air Transport Regulation Agency.
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The strikes against Sochi, located more than 500 km from the Ukrainian front, are relatively rare, compared to other Russian cities. However, Ukrainian drones attacks killed two dead at the end of July, according to local authorities.
Ukraine has not yet commented on the fire declared on Saturday night. The country had warned that it would intensify its attacks in Russia in response to multiplication in the last weeks of Russian attacks against its territory, which has caused the death of dozens of civilians.
The president of the United States, Donald Trump, gave his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin this week an ultimatum of ten days, until Friday, August 8, to end the Ukraine conflict. But air attacks and fights have not weakened.
The Kremlin rejects the idea of a high durable fire in Ukraine, which he sees as a gift made to kyiv’s troops, despite the frustration expressed by Donald Trump before this refusal.
Source: BFM TV
