Ukraine’s drones strike port, oil depot in southern Russia, authorities say
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Ukrainian drones closing in on a Russian oil depot, in a screenshot from a video posted online by the Ukrainian military.
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- Ukrainian drones hit Russian oil facilities in Taganrog and Armavir overnight. Fires were extinguished, with two people injured in Taganrog and a state of emergency extended.
- Russia claimed to down 127 drones, nearly 50 in Rostov. President Zelensky confirmed strikes, stating Ukraine is "bringing the war back to where it came from."
- Ukrainian drones also struck an oil depot in Russian-controlled Feodosiya, Crimea. Zelensky stated the strikes were justified because Russia chose to prolong its aggression.
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KYIV - Ukrainian drone strikes hit Russia’s oil infrastructure overnight, damaging a tanker and an oil refinery in Taganrog and striking an oil depot in Armavir, Russian regional officials and Ukrainian military said on May 30.
Rostov regional governor Yury Slyusar said on Telegram that fires on the tanker and in the port of Taganrog - a city of about 240,000 - had been extinguished, with no oil spill reported. Two people were injured, he said.
The city’s mayor, Svetlana Kambulova, said a local state of emergency, introduced on May 27, had been extended. Russia’s Defence Ministry said that its forces had downed 127 drones overnight.
In the neighbouring Krasnodar region, authorities in Armavir, which has a population of 185,000, said a fire at an oil depot in the city’s industrial zone had been brought under control and that there were no injuries.
Rostov governor Slyusar said that almost 50 drones had been downed in his region, with attacks reported across the province, which borders Ukraine’s Donbas, the focus of fighting between Russia and Ukraine.
Outside Taganrog, he said, only minor damage was reported.
The commander of Ukraine’s drone forces said they had struck Taganrog, as well as an oil depot in Feodosiya, in Ukraine’s Russian-occupied peninsula of Crimea.
President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed the Ukrainian military strike on the oil facility in Armavir, some 500km from the Ukrainian state border.
“We are rightfully bringing the war back to where it came from. Russia could have ended its aggression long ago, but instead chose to prolong and continue it,” Mr Zelensky said on X.
“So another facility of Russia’s oil industry has been reached – Armavir, Krasnodar Krai.” REUTERS
