Ukraine said it hit a Russian army ammunition depot in the Russian region of Voronezh, bordering Ukraine, on Tuesday, causing a major fire at the site.
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“On June 25, 2024, an ammunition depot of the Russian aggressive army was hit (…) in the Voronezh region,” the Main Directorate of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry said in a statement. morning.
According to this source, the operation was carried out by Ukrainian military intelligence forces.
“A fire broke out on this site containing shells and with a total area of 3,500 m2,” said the Ukrainian ministry, specifying that the fire “is still burning”.
Russian state TV channel Vesti broadcast images showing a plume of smoke rising in the distance, in the Voronezh region, where “two localities were attacked by Ukraine”, about 50 kilometers from the border .
The regional Russian governor, Alexander Gusev, indicated on Telegram that there had been “a detonation of explosive objects in the Olkhovatskii district”, after having reported that two districts had been “attacked by Ukraine during of the night”.
Kyiv has been trying, in recent months, to strike, on Russian soil, the rear bases of Moscow’s forces, sites generally used to attack Ukrainian cities and energy structures using missiles or drones.
Earlier Tuesday, the Russian Defense Ministry mentioned in a morning report having “intercepted and destroyed” a drone in the Voronezh region, without giving further details.
In total, the Russian army said it destroyed 30 Ukrainian explosive drones in regions bordering Ukraine during the night from Monday to Tuesday.
“During the night, during an attempt by the Kyiv regime to carry out terrorist attacks with aerial drones on the territory of the Russian Federation, air defense systems intercepted and destroyed 29 drones in the Belgorod region and one drone in Voronezh,” the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement.
“Unfortunately (…), a civilian resident was killed” in the village of Belovskoye, in the Belgorod region, declared for his part the regional governor, Vyacheslav Gladkov.
It concerns an “elderly woman whose house was directly targeted” by a drone, he said.
On Sunday, a Ukrainian missile strike in Crimea, a peninsula annexed by Russia in 2014, left at least four dead, including two children, and more than 150 injured, according to local authorities installed by Moscow.
