INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Ukraine was behind an attack that sparked a huge inferno at an oil depot in western Russia on Friday, a source in the Ukrainian security
services told AFP.The strike is the second on a Russian oil depot in as many days after Kyiv claimed another attack on an oil storage
Petersburg on Thursday.Kyiv has targeted Russian oil and gas infrastructure throughout the almost two-year conflict, attacks they argue are
retaliation for strikes on Ukrainian territory.Friday's attack targeted a depot in the western Bryansk region town of Klintsy, around 50
kilometers from the Ukrainian border.The strike was an operation carried out by the main intelligence directorate of the Ukrainian Defense
Ministry, a Ukrainian security source confirmed to AFP, without elaborating.Video shared on social media showed a large cloud of black smoke
billowing over the Klintsy facility following the attack, which Russian officials said was a drone strike.Russia said it shot down a
Ukrainian drone over the Bryansk region, but before it was intercepted it managed to drop "munitions" on the depot, sparking the fire.There
residents of a nearby residential area were evacuated to temporary shelters.State experts were monitoring for air quality as four storage
Bryansknefteprodukt terminal, which is owned by the Russian oil giant Rosneft.On Thursday, Ukraine claimed responsibility for a rare drone
attack over the Leningrad region and St
Petersburg, both of which are several hundred kilometers from the border with Ukraine.
