Ukrainian drone attack sparks massive fire at Russian oil depot

A Ukrainian soldier puts out the fire after a Russian drone hit the market in the town of Druzhkivka, Donetsk region, Ukraine, on Saturday (Oleg Petrasiuk/Ukraine’s 24th Mechanized Brigade/AP)

An overnight Ukrainian drone attack on an oil depot near Russia’s Black Sea resort of Sochi sparked a major fire, Russian officials have said, as the two countries traded strikes.

More than 120 firefighters attempted to extinguish the blaze, sparked after debris from a downed drone struck a fuel tank, Krasnodar regional governor Veniamin Kondratyev said on Telegram on Sunday.