Kiev/Moscow (EFE) .- Russia attacked Ukrainian territory last night with 26 Iranian-made kamikaze drones, of which Ukraine’s anti-aircraft defenses shot down 21, the Ukrainian Air Force reported today on its Telegram channel.
The Kiev military authorities have assured that three of the 26 drones launched by Russia were directed against an oil infrastructure in the Kirovograd province, in central Ukraine.
The attack occurred around three in the morning local time (1:00 GMT) and affected an “oil depot” in the region, explained the head of the Kirovograd Military Administration, Andriy Raikovych, in his Telegram account.
The attack comes after several infrastructures and train tracks that Russia uses to supply fuel to its troops in Ukraine have exploded in recent days.
Ukraine has not officially claimed or denied that its forces or secret services are behind the attacks, although an anonymous source from the emergency services, quoted by the official Russian agency TASS, has attributed the fire, last night, in a fuel depot in the town of Volná, in the Russian region of Krasnodar, to “the fall of a drone”.
Crimea, at the center of the Ukrainian counteroffensive
This latest fire, registered a little more than 10 kilometers from the place where the bridge that connects Russia with the annexed Crimean peninsula begins, is the second incident in this type of facility that has occurred in the area in the last four days.
In the early hours of last Saturday, a drone attack caused another fire in a fuel depot in the Crimean port of Sevastopol, the main base of the Russian Black Sea Fleet.
Ukrainian troops attack Russian logistical and assembly points on the ground and in the rear in preparation for the expected counteroffensive, in which Crimea is taking center stage.
According to analysts, these attacks seek to threaten the supply of Russian troops and confirm kyiv’s ability to strike inside the peninsula, in the hands of Russia since 2014.