Kyiv has said that its forces successfully attacked an oil depot in Russia’s southern Rostov region used to supply Moscow’s military units operating on the frontlines.
“An important facility of the Russian invaders was hit,” Ukraine’s General Staff wrote in a June 23 post on its official Telegram channel.
“Units of the Special Operations Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, in cooperation with the Missile Forces and artillery, struck the Atlas Plant oil depot in the [Russian] Rostov region.”
According to Ukraine’s General Staff, the targeted facility is “used to provide fuel and lubricants to Russian military units involved in the armed aggression against Ukraine in the temporarily occupied territories of the Luhansk and Donetsk regions.”
It went on to assert that the strike had caused a fire at the oil depot, adding that the attack’s results were still “being clarified.”
Moscow has yet to confirm the Ukrainian claim, which The Epoch Times could not independently verify.
“The air attack continues to be repelled in the north of the Rostov region,” Slyusar wrote on Telegram, according to an English translation, adding that Ukrainian drones had “been destroyed in [Rostov’s] Millerovsky, Kamensky, Tarasovsky, Bokovsky, and Milyutinsky districts.”
“As a result of the attack, a fire occurred at an industrial enterprise in Kamensky district,” the regional governor added.
“According to preliminary data, none of the company’s employees were injured,” he wrote, later claiming that the blaze at the facility had been extinguished.
Located in southwestern Russia, the Rostov region shares a border with southeastern Ukraine.
In 2022, Russia invaded and effectively annexed four areas of eastern and southeastern Ukraine, including Luhansk and Donetsk, which together comprise the Russian-speaking Donbas region.
Kyiv has vowed to recover all lost territory by force of arms.
“The [Ukrainian] defense forces continue to take all measures to undermine the military-economic potential of the Russian occupiers and force the Russian Federation to stop its armed aggression against Ukraine,” Kyiv’s General Staff wrote on Telegram.
In recent months, Russia and Ukraine have stepped up attacks on each other’s critical energy infrastructure, including oil depots and refineries, despite efforts by Washington to secure a temporary cease-fire.
Moscow Building Hit: TASS
On June 24, Russia’s TASS news agency reported that a Ukrainian drone had struck a multistory residential building on the western outskirts of Moscow, injuring two people and setting an apartment ablaze.The news agency further reported, citing Russia’s defense ministry, that Russian air defenses had “destroyed or intercepted” 20 incoming Ukrainian drones over six regions of the country.
According to the ministry, 14 drones were successfully downed over Russia’s western Kursk region, two over the greater Moscow region and one each over the regions of Belgorod, Bryansk, Oryol, and Smolensk.
In recent months, Ukraine has staged wide-ranging drone strikes on targets deep inside Russian territory.
Earlier this month, Kyiv carried out a drone attack—dubbed “Operation Spider’s Web”—that hit nuclear-capable strategic bombers stationed at airbases inside Russia.
Within the same period, Russia has carried out several drone and missile attacks on targets inside Ukrainian cities, the most recent of which—on June 22—left at least 10 people dead in Kyiv, according to Ukrainian officials.
