A Ukrainian drone attack targeted a military airfield in southern Russia during the night from Wednesday to Thursday, the local governor announced, reporting a fire, a new strike on Russian soil claimed by Kyiv.
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The important Feodosia oil terminal in Crimea, a Ukrainian peninsula annexed by Moscow, is still engulfed in flames for the fourth consecutive day, following a strike carried out on Monday by Ukraine, according to Kyiv.
“Last night, the suburb of Maykop (where a military airfield is located, editor’s note) was attacked by enemy drones,” Murat Koumpilov, the local official in the republic of Adygea (south), said in a statement on Telegram. .
Mr. Koumpilov assured that “no casualties have been reported”, but reported a fire, which the firefighters “are in the process of putting out”. Around forty people were evacuated from the area around the site, including 13 children, according to his comments to the Interfax news agency.
The Russian Telegram channel Mash, known to be close to law enforcement, assured that Ukraine had “tried to attack” the military airfield near Maykop with PD-2 drones.
The Russian army, in a morning report, claimed earlier Thursday that its air defense systems had “intercepted” 47 drones above the Krasnodar region, which surrounds the republic of Adygea, landlocked in this area.
For his part, Andriï Kovalenko, an official of the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council, affirmed that the airfield near Maykop had been “attacked” by Ukrainian forces and that it “continues to burn”.
According to his account, the Ukrainian army targeted and “destroyed” an industrial “fuel and lubricants depot” on the site.
On Wednesday evening, kyiv said it had destroyed a depot housing hundreds of Shahed explosive drones in the neighboring region of Krasnodar, a way to “significantly reduce” Russian attack power.
Furthermore, the extinguishing of the fire at the Feodossia oil terminal in Crimea “continues”, for the fourth day in a row, a sign of the scale of the disaster, Igor Tkatchenko, the mayor of this city, indicated on Telegram, from where more than 1,100 people have already been evacuated.
Russian authorities did not name the cause of the fire, but they did not deny Ukraine’s announcement.
In response to Russian bombings for more than two and a half years on its infrastructure and cities, Ukraine has increased attacks against Russian military and energy sites in order to disrupt the organization of Moscow’s army which still occupies nearly 20 % of Ukrainian territory.
