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Ukrainian Helicopters Strike at Russian Oil Depot, Local Official Claims

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4.1.22
Ukrainian military helicopters carried out a targeted strike on an oil storage facility on Russian soil, the region’s governor claimed Friday. "There was a fire at the petrol depot because of an air strike carried out by two Ukrainian army helicopters, who entered Russian territory at a low altitude," Vyacheslav Gladkov, governor of the Belgorod region that borders northeastern Ukraine, wrote in an early-morning Telegram post. Ukrainian authorities have not confirmed the alleged attack. The Kremlin said the reported Ukrainian airstrike will hinder future peace talks. "Of course, this is not something that can be perceived as creating comfortable conditions for the continuation of negotiations," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.

Eight tanks are now on fire at the depot in the city of Belgorod, the Emergency Situations Ministry told Interfax. Nearly 200 firefighters have been deployed to the scene. Two oil depot employees received non-life-threatening injuries, Gladkov said. No deaths have been reported. Rosneft, which owns the facility, told Russian news agencies it has evacuated its staff from the premises. Belgorod Mayor Anton Ivanov said people whose homes are near the facility have been evacuated to the Belgorod Arena until the fire is extinguished. On Wednesday, explosions could be heard from an arms depot in Belgorod but the authorities did not provide any explanation for the blasts. Belgorod lies some 80 kilometers from the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, which has fallen under heavy Russian bombardment since Moscow launched its war on Ukraine on Feb. 24.


Russia invaded Ukraine over a month ago and has literally flattened the city of Mariupol. Yet the Kremlin says this pinprick Ukrainian strike may hinder peace talks.

Dmitry Peskov -- **** you.
 
Is it possible for Ukrainians to launch this attack. In theory: absolutely. For them to have been able to carry it out it means Russian air defences were all asleep though. So if that happened it doesn't look great for the Russians.
 
Is it possible for Ukrainians to launch this attack. In theory: absolutely. For them to have been able to carry it out it means Russian air defences were all asleep though. So if that happened it doesn't look great for the Russians.
From what I heard (and one hears all sorts of things these days) the two choppers came in at night IOW under cover of darkness.

Maybe it's not a Russian priority to have radar at fuel dumps or the reported low altitude prevented "in time" detection.

And maybe Russian ears were so filled with singing of "Kalinka" that nobody heard anything else.
 
So Ukraine finally makes a decent strike and the Russians are pissed?

What a what a bunch of dominating assholes.
 
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