“The attack caused a spill of petroleum products that caught fire at the Volgograd oil refinery“Said Andrei Bocharov, the governor of this region nearly 500 kilometers from the front line, in a press release on Telegram.
Another Ukrainian drone hit a car and injured three people in the Belgorod region, said its governor, Viatcheslav Gladkov, who published a video showing the car in flames and debris scattered in the street. “”Emergency services are on site“He added on Telegram.
Ukraine did not immediately comment on this attack. Since Russia launched its large -scale military offensive against Ukraine in February 2022, kyiv responded with drone strikes on Russian infrastructure located hundreds of kilometers from its border.
The Russian Defense Ministry said it had intercepted 44 Ukrainian drones between Wednesday evening and Thursday morning, including seven above Crimea, Peninsula annexed by Russia in 2014. These attacks occurred on the eve of a crucial summit in Alaska between US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.
