Smoke rises after a Russian drone strike on Druzhkivka, Donetsk area, Ukraine, on Saturday (Oleg Petrasiuk/Ukraine’s twenty fourth Mechanized Brigade/AP) (Oleg Petrasiuk/AP)
Local officers reported that particles from a downed drone struck a gasoline tank on the oil depot within the Black Sea resort metropolis of Sochi.
More than 120 firefighters tried to extinguish the blaze, sparked after particles from a downed drone struck a gasoline tank, Krasnodar regional governor Veniamin Kondratyev mentioned on Telegram on Sunday.
Videos on social media seem to indicate big pillars of smoke billowing above the oil depot.
Russia’s civil aviation authority, Rosaviatsia, briefly stopped flights at Sochi’s airport.
Further north, authorities within the Voronezh area reported 4 individuals had been injured in one other Ukrainian drone strike.
Russia’s defence ministry mentioned its air defences shot down 93 Ukrainian drones over Russia and the Black Sea in a single day into Sunday.
Meanwhile, in southern Ukraine, a Russian missile strike hit a residential space within the metropolis of Mykolaiv, based on the emergency companies, injuring seven individuals.
The Ukrainian air power mentioned on Sunday that Russia launched 76 drones and 7 missiles towards Ukraine. It mentioned 60 drones and one missile had been intercepted, however 16 others and 6 missiles hit targets throughout eight places.
The reciprocal assaults got here on the finish of one of many deadliest weeks in Ukraine in current months, after a Russian drone and missile assault on Thursday killed 31 individuals, together with 5 kids, and injured greater than 150.
The continued assaults come after US President Donald Trump on Tuesday gave Russian President Vladimir Putin a shorter deadline of August 8 for peace efforts to make progress.
He then mentioned on Thursday that particular envoy Steve Witkoff is heading to Russia to push Moscow to conform to a ceasefire in its struggle with Ukraine, and has threatened new financial sanctions if progress shouldn’t be made.
