After two helicopter gunships believed to be Ukrainians bombed a fuel storage facility in Russia, the British Ministry of Defense said on Friday that a fire destroyed several oil tanks in a warehouse. In Belgorod, Russia near the Ukrainian border.
The ministry said on Twitter that there were reports of explosions at a fuel depot in the vicinity of Russia’s Belgorod on March 30, adding that “the fire of fuel tanks and the loss of ammunition may severely affect the supplies of Russian forces besieging Kharkiv, 60 km from Belgorod.”
Ukrainian strike
For its part, the Kremlin said Friday that the strike by Ukrainian helicopters, according to Moscow, on a fuel tank in Russia, would hinder peace talks between the two countries. This is the first accusation that Ukraine launched an air strike on Russian soil since the start of the war on February 24.
Pictures of a fire in a fuel storage depot in the Russian city of Belgorod – Archyde.com
“It is clear that we cannot provide adequate conditions for the continuation of negotiations,” Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said following a fuel tank in the Belgorod region bordering Ukraine was hit at dawn on Friday.
Kyiv has so far declined to comment on the process immediately.
The strike, the first of its kind for Kiev, came at a time when Russia claims that it is in complete control of Ukraine’s airspace. However, the Kremlin reiterated that the strike was carried out by the Ukrainians.
Pictures of a fire in a fuel storage depot in the Russian city of Belgorod – Archyde.com
The governor of the Belgorod region, Vyacheslav Gladkov, announced on Friday morning that Ukrainian helicopters had struck a fuel depot in the town of Belgorod, forty kilometers from the Ukrainian border.
But the Russian company “Rosneft”, which owns the fuel depot, said in a separate statement that the fire did not result in injuries, without giving any information regarding its cause.
The city is located regarding 80 kilometers north of Kharkiv, which has been resisting the Russian attack since the start of the war on February 24.
