Ukraine-Russia latest: Huge fire at Russian oil depot after drone strike by Kyiv in blow to Putin’s war machine

Over 100 firefighters rushed to tackle a blaze at an oil depot in Sochi, Russia, after Ukraine launched an overnight drone attack in a blow to Vladimir Putin’s war machine.

Footage showed towering flames and thick black smoke billowing from a fuel tank with a capacity of 70,000 cubic feet in Krasnodar on the Black Sea.

The attack, which was in the Adler district of the coastal resort city, would be Ukraine’s latest on infrastructure inside Russia that Kyiv deems key to Moscow’s war efforts.

A woman was killed in the Adler district in a Ukrainian drone attack late last month, but attacks on Sochi, which hosted the 2014 Olympic Winter Games, have been infrequent in the war that Russia launched in February 2022.

Meanwhile, at least seven people were injured after Russian troops launched a missile strike on the city of Mykolaiv in southern Ukraine on Sunday.

The attack destroyed or damaged dozens of homes, regional governor Vitaliy Kim said. There was no immediate comment from Russia about the attack.