Oil depot in Russia's Bryansk region catches fire after Ukrainian drone attack - governor

Oil tanks at a storage facility in the town of Klintsy in Russia's Bryansk region caught fire after the military brought down a Ukrainian drone trying to attack targets in the town, Alexander Bogomaz, the regional governor, said on Friday. According to preliminary information, nobody had been hurt in the incident, Bogomaz said, adding that the fire was being put out by firefighting teams.

Oil tanks at a storage facility in the town of Klintsy in Russia's Bryansk region caught fire after the military brought down a Ukrainian drone trying to attack targets in the town, Alexander Bogomaz, the regional governor, said on Friday.

According to preliminary information, nobody had been hurt in the incident, Bogomaz said, adding that the fire was being put out by firefighting teams. "An aeroplane-style drone was brought down by the defence ministry using radio-electronic means. When the aerial target was destroyed, its munitios were dropped on the territory of the Klintsy oil depot," Bogomaz wrote on the Telegram messaging app.

Unverified footage posted on social media showed a fire burning in the darkness alongwise what looked like storage tanks. Earlier on Friday, the Russian Defence Ministry had said it had destroyed a Ukrainian drone in the skies over the Bryansk region, which borders Ukraine.

Authorities in the region regularly report drone attacks from Ukraine. A Russian-appointed official

said a day earlier that Ukraine had tried and failed to target a Russian Baltic Sea oil terminal with a drone, in what appeared to be a rare attempt to strike a facility in St Petersburg.

Commenting on that incident, a Ukrainian government minister was quoted

by the Interfax-Ukraine news agency on Thursday as saying that Ukraine had hit targets in St Petersburg using a domestic-produced drone that flew 1,250 km (775 miles). Reuters could not independently verify the statements.