Did Ukraine Hit Russian Oil Depot in Crimea with Drones?

A large fire broke out on Saturday in a fuel depot in Sevastopol on the Crimean peninsula, which took several hours to extinguish. The Kremlin-installed officials were quick to blame Ukraine for carrying out the attack using drones. The Russian-appointed official reported that the oil depot was attacked by "two enemy drones," which caused four oil tanks to burn down. However, the event is a matter of confusion, as social media images showed black smoke billowing high into the sky, and the Ukrainian side has denied the accusations. In recent days, the Russian region of Belgorod on the border with Ukraine was hit by attacks, leaving five villages without power due to Ukrainian shelling. The development marks the latest in a series of tensions between the two countries, with Russia annexing Crimea from Ukraine in 2014, a move internationally ruled as illegal. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said his country will seek to reclaim the peninsula in the upcoming counteroffensive.

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