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Oil depot catches fire in Russia’s Oryol region as Ukraine launches fresh barrage of drones strikes

Photo: Gorod Oryol / Telegram

Photo: Gorod Oryol / Telegram

Ukrainian drones continued to strike targets in Russia across a large geographic area overnight, Russia’s Defence Ministry said on Sunday morning, announcing that its air defence systems had intercepted 42 drones over five regions in southern Russia.

An oil depot in the Oryol region village of Stalnoy Kon caught fire after being targeted by a drone, according to Oryol Governor Andrey Klychkov, who added that the fire had been extinguished by Sunday morning and that there had been no casualties or serious damage.

“Tonight our air defence and electronic warfare equipment destroyed 20 drones over the Oryol region,” Klychkov wrote on Telegram, adding that the enemy’s main target had been the region’s “fuel and energy infrastructure facilities”.

The Ukrainian attack on the Stalny Kon oil depot was the second in just over a week, with Klychkov announcing an earlier strike on the facility on 14 December.

The acting governor of the Rostov Region, Yury Slyusar, also announced that there had been Ukrainian drone and missile strikes made on the Rostov region overnight. “A total of eight drones were shot down and destroyed by electronic warfare equipment in the Azov district, near Taganrog and Novocherkassk, and a missile near Millerovo,” Slyusar wrote.

Bryansk Governor Alexander Bogomaz also took to Telegram to announce that five drones had been shot down over the Bryansk region overnight, stressing that there had been no casualties or damage as a result of the attacks.

The wide ranging Ukrainian drone strikes follow a concerted attack on Russia’s fifth largest city Kazan on Saturday, which included two drones causing massive damage when they flew into a 37-storey residential building, striking at the heart of a city that’s well over 1,000km from the Ukrainian border.

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