Ukrainian drone strikes hit Russian oil facility, spark fuel depot fire

Young men perform bike tricks during the BRUDNY PES (dirty dog)music and street culture festival, at the Dovzhenko Film Studio in Kyiv on Saturday, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Pic/AFP

A Ukrainian drone attack killed one person in Russia's southwestern Oryol region, local officials said Sunday, while a separate strike hit an oil facility as part of Kyiv's campaign of strikes on military and energy targets deep inside Russia.

Local authorities in Russia's Yaroslavl region, around 700 kilometres from the Ukrainian border, said fuel storage facilities caught fire after being hit by a drone.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said his country's forces "struck an oil facility that was important for the reserve in Russia's Yaroslavl region.

Meanwhile, Britain is investigating a sanctioned tanker that is suspected of being part of the Russian "shadow fleet," shipping oil.

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