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This video grab taken from a handout footage released by Russian Emergency Ministry on January 19, 2024 shows rescuers working to extinguish a fire at the oil depot following a drone attack in Klintsy, Bryansk region, amid the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian conflict. - Ukraine was behind an attack that sparked a huge inferno at an oil depot in western Russia on January 19, 2024, a source in the Ukrainian security services told AFP. The strike is the second on a Russian oil depot in as many days, after Kyiv claimed another attack on an oil storage facility in the northern Leningrad region of Russia on January 18, 2024. (Photo by Handout / RUSSIAN EMERGENCY MINISTRY / AFP)
A Ukrainian drone hit a petrol depot early Friday setting it on fire, a Russian regional governor said, adding that the strike took place hundreds of miles from the border.
Maxim Yegorov, governor of the Tambov region in central Russia, said the strike happened at 4:35 am (0135 GMT).
"A small fire broke out and it has been contained," he said on messaging app Telegram. "There are no victims".
Russia's defence ministry, meanwhile, said it had "intercepted" 25 Ukrainian drones overnight, without mentioning the Tambov region.
In the western Bryansk region, governor Alexander Bogomaz said a drone had been downed but its debris "partially destroyed the roof of an administrative building".
Ukraine, which has been facing a Russian offensive for over two years, regularly launches attacks targeting Russian energy and defence sites in response to strikes on its territory.
