Multiple media outlets are reporting the Ukrainian military executed an airstrike on Russian soil, destroying a critical fuel depot. “Videos showed a flurry of rockets piercing the night sky in Belgorod at around 6 a.m. — and then a huge fire raging at the storage depot in the Russian city about 21 miles from Ukraine’s border,” The New York Post reports.
“The fire at the oil depot occurred as a result of an airstrike from two helicopters of the armed forces of Ukraine, which entered the territory of Russia at a low altitude,” Belgorod region governor Vyacheslav Gladkov wrote on Telegram.
“Ukraine did not immediately acknowledge the accusation — which the Kremlin warned could hamper peace talks between the nations, which were due to continue Friday,” the Post reports.
“Of course, this is not something that can be perceived as creating comfortable conditions for the continuation of negotiations,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters, according to Agence France-Presse.
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Ukraine accused of revenge airstrike on major Russian fuel depot https://t.co/vgiBMmuAN8 pic.twitter.com/GLRp0NnuUv
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