Russian authorities are struggling to put out an inferno in the Rostov Oblast, caused by a Ukrainian drone attack on the major fuel facility.
Russian firefighters are battling a three-day inferno in the southwest of the country, after a Ukrainian drone attack on an oil storage depot ignited the facility's diesel reserves.On Saturday Rostov Oblast Governor Vasily Golubev said that Russian air defense forces had repelled an attack by a Ukrainian UAV in the town of Proletarsk, located around 150 miles from the Ukrainian border.
According to Yaroslov Trofimov, a Ukrainian-born journalist and chief foreign affairs correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, the Proletarsk facility holds up to $200 million worth of fuel, based on a domestic wholesale price of around $500 per ton of diesel.Since the launch of Russia's full-scale invasion in February 2022, Ukraine has continued to strike industrial facilities and energy assets within Russia in the hopes of crippling its economy and military financing capabilities.
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