Berlin The attack took place this Saturday morning: at 6.50 a.m. local time, two rockets are said to have hit a petrol storage facility in the western Russian province of Belgorod. Shot down by a plane that had previously invaded Russian territory. This is what the governor of Belgorod, Alexander Bogomas, said on Telegram, but without providing any evidence.
The incident is part of a series of previously unsolved fires in Russia’s fuel reserves – and may follow Ukrainian announcements that it is now launching attacks on Russian territory to retaliate against invaders at home.
A few days ago, two columns of black smoke stood hundreds of meters high in the sky over Bryansk. A large oil depot of the Rosneft oil company, which is majority-controlled by the Kremlin, and a pipeline entry point of the state oil transport monopoly Transneft were hit on Tuesday.
Tens of thousands of liters of petrol, diesel, kerosene and crude oil were destroyed – 170 kilometers northeast of Ukraine’s outermost border.
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