Oil depot and military warehouses on fire in Russia after drone attack – photos, videos

Drone attacks targeted sites in Russia's Rostov and Belgorod oblasts on the night of 17-18 June, triggering fires at an oil depot in the city of Gukovo and at what is believed to be a military storage facility near Shebekino.

Source: Astra, a Russian media outlet; monitoring Telegram channels; Rostov Oblast Governor Yuri Slyusar

Details: Residents of Gukovo in Rostov Oblast reported explosions and a fire following an overnight drone attack. Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) analysts said they had identified the source of the blaze as an oil depot on Karl Marx Street.

Satellite imagery shows that the site contains eight oil storage tanks and is served by railway tracks.

Slyusar said one person had been killed and two injured in the attack on Gukovo. He also reported that "two commercial facilities caught fire" and that a locomotive had been damaged.

A large fire also broke out near Shebekino in Belgorod Oblast on the evening of 17 June. There were posts on local Telegram channels reporting drones flying over the area shortly before the blaze started.

Analysis of photos and videos suggests the fire erupted in an industrial zone on the border between the villages of Rzhevka and Voznesenka. A warehouse containing flammable materials is burning. Analysts believe the warehouses may have been used by Russian forces to store military equipment and supplies.

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