Ukrainian drone attack triggers fire at Russian oil terminal

Russian President Vladimir Putin. Pic/PTI

A Ukrainian drone attack caused a fire at another Russian oil terminal overnight, local officials in Russia's Krasnodar region said Saturday, in what appeared to be the latest attack on Moscow's vital oil industry. "The facility provides shipment of oil and oil products for export and is involved in meeting the needs of the Russian army," the General Staff wrote on Telegram, adding that Ukrainian forces had also hit a tanker in the Black Sea belonging to Russia's so-called "shadow fleet."

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday denounced the attack on the dormitory as a "crime" and ordered the military to submit its proposals for retaliation. At a UN Security Council emergency meeting on the strike, held at the request of Russia, Ukrainian Ambassador Melnyk Andrii denied his Russian counterpart's accusations of war crimes and asserting that Friday's operations "exclusively targeted the Russian war machine."

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