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Refinery hit to stall Putin's war machine
Daily Express
|August 19, 2024
UKRAINE yesterday struck an oil refinery 125 miles inside Russia with a swarm of kamikaze drones.
Footage showed flames and smoke rising into the sky from the Proletarsk fuel storage plant at Rostov-on-Don. The aim was to damage Russian war supplies.
The strikes came as Ukraine holed a second bridge over the Seim River, further preventing Russian forces from hitting back at Kyiv's army occupying territory in the Kursk region.
Vladimir Putin appeared to be feeling the strain of the crisis by wringing his hands in a tense meeting with top officials to decide how to tackle Ukraine's invasion.
The blaze at Proletarsk was so serious that a fire-fighting train was sent to the oil depot.
Debris
The Russian authorities earlier reported they had thwarted the attack and that the fire was caused by falling debris from a drone.
This story is from the August 19, 2024 edition of Daily Express.
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