A Ukrainian drone attack caused a fire without making a victim in an oil depot in Sochi, a seaside city in southwest Russia known for welcoming the 2014 Olympic Games, local authorities said on Sunday.
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Ukraine regularly strikes Russian oil and gas infrastructure, in response to attacks on its own territory since the start of the Russian -scale assault in February 2022.
Russian Nocturnal attacks in Ukraine also injured, said the Ukrainian authorities on Sunday.
In Russia, “Sochi underwent a drone attack from the kyiv regime that night,” the governor of the Krasnodar region, Veniamine Kondratiev, on Telegram.
The debris of a drone hit a “reservoir of petroleum products, which caused a fire,” he said.
During the night, 127 firefighters were trying to turn off the fire, according to the governor.
The mayor of Sochi, Andreï Prochounine, then said that the attack had not made any victims.
“The situation is entirely controlled,” he said, while saying that firefighters continued to work on the “complete elimination” of fire.
Images, broadcast by Russian media, but of which AFP could not verify the authenticity, showed a blaze and thick plumes of black smoke.
Air traffic was interrupted at Sochi airport, before resuming a little later, according to the Russian Air Transport Regulation Agency, Rosaviatsia.
The strikes against Sochi, located more than 500km from the Ukrainian front, are rare compared to other Russian cities.
Ukrainian drone attacks, however, killed two dead at the end of July, according to local authorities.
Ukraine has not yet commented on the fire declared in the night from Saturday to Sunday.
The country had warned that it would intensify its strikes in Russia in response to the multiplication in recent weeks of Russian attacks against its territory, which have caused the death of dozens of civilians.
The Russian Defense Ministry said that three Ukrainian drones had also been intercepted in the Leningrad region, which includes the city of St. Petersburg.
On the Ukrainian side, nocturnal strikes made injured in regions of the south and northeast, according to the authorities.
A missile made seven injured in a residential area of Mykolaïv, a southern city, said Prime Minister Ioulia Svyrydenko.
Three other people were injured in the Kharkiv region, she added, various local authorities also reported in the regions of Zaporijjia and Kherson, both in the south.
“The Russians continue to conduct war not against Ukrainian forces, but against Ukrainian civilians,” said Svyrydenko.
US President Donald Trump gave his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin this week a ten -day ultimatum, until next Friday, to end the conflict in Ukraine.
But air strikes and fights have not weakened.
The Kremlin rejects the idea of a lasting ceasefire in Ukraine, which he sees as a gift made to kyiv’s troops, despite the frustration expressed by Donald Trump in the face of this refusal.