Ukrainian drones reach Russian Black Sea resort

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

- ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORTERS

More than 120 firefighters attempted to extinguish the blaze, sparked after debris from a downed drone struck a fuel tank, Krasnodar provincial governor Veniamin Kon-dratyev said on social media.

Video footage on social media appeared to show huge pillars of smoke billowing above the oil depot. Russia's civil aviation authority, Rosaviatsia, temporarily stopped flights at Sochi's airport.

Further north, authorities in Russia’s Voronezh province reported four people were injured in another Ukrainian drone strike.

Russia's defence ministry claimed its air defences had shot down 93 Ukrainian drones over Russia and the Black Sea overnight on Saturday into yesterday.