Pravda Ukraine
A satellite has recorded traces of fires at an oil depot in Kalach-on-Don in Russia’s Volgograd Oblast, where explosions occurred on 9 July.
Source: Radio Liberty
Details: The video shows two fires with thick smoke coming out of them. According to Radio Liberty, drones hit two groups of fuel tanks located a short distance from each other. The journalists also note that it was only on Wednesday morning that Russian firefighters had managed to extinguish the fire at the oil depot.
Background:
- On Tuesday night, drones attacked the town of Kalach-on-Don in Russia’s Volgograd Oblast. The target was a local oil depot.
- Russian propaganda media reported that the airports in the Russian cities of Volgograd and Astrakhan had restricted arrivals and departures due to the drone attack.
- Ukrainska Pravda sources in the Security Service of Ukraine and Defence Intelligence of Ukraine reported that a joint operation on the night of 9 July had resulted in fires breaking out at the Akhtubinsk military airbase in Astrakhan Oblast of the Russian Federation, at a power substation in Rostov Oblast and an oil depot in Kalach-on-Don in Volgograd Oblast.
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