A Russian oil depot caught fire after an attack attributed to Kiev by Moscow

According to an official, there were “no casualties” in the attack, but a “fire” broke out.

A new episode of the war in Ukraine. An oil depot in the Russian border area of ​​Bryansk was attacked on Friday, January 19. The place is engulfed in flames even at noon. “Ukrainian terrorists tried to attack infrastructure on the territory of the city of Klintsi using drones“, the governor of the Bryansk region, Alexander Bogomaz, said on Telegram.

According to him, it was a drone “neutral” By Russian anti-aircraft defenses but at the time of its interception, the machine “fired an ammo” At an oil depot in Klintsi, a town of about 60,000 inhabitants located 70 km from the Ukrainian border. Thirty-two people had to be evacuated.

A particularly violent fire

The official clarified that there was no attack “No casualties”But take it“a fire” After declaring itself, 13 fire trucks as well as a special train loaded with 120 tons of water and five tons of fire-fighting foam were mobilized. In a video released by the governor, black smoke can be seen billowing from the tanks of state oil group Rosneft. According to this source, the fire was classified “at the highest level of complexity”.

For its part, the Russian Defense Ministry reported the drone attack in the Bryansk region, without specifying the exact location, assuring that it had “destroy” machine and “failed” Ukrainian effort. On Thursday, Ukraine claimed responsibility for the attack on an oil depot in northwestern Russia’s Leningrad region, about 1,000 km from the border between the two countries.