War in Ukraine: Drone attack and Russian oil depot hit… the latest developments

Every day, Midi Libre takes stock of the situation in Ukraine. This Saturday, October 12, 2024, discover the latest news about this conflict.

A fuel depot hit

Ukrainian forces said on Saturday that they had hit a fuel depot in the Luhansk region, occupied by Moscow, the Ukrainian army announced.“The site was used to store oil and oil products, among other things, for the needs of the Russian army. A fire was reported in the area of ​​the site, the Ukrainian command said in a message posted on Telegram.

The fire broke out at the site, which, according to the General Staff, supplies the Kremlin's armed forces and had already been hit “previously" by "Ukrainian weapons".

Moscow has not confirmed the attack. kyiv regularly targets Russian industrial and military sites, in response to the bombings that have been plaguing Ukraine since the invasion of February 2022.

Drone attack

Ukraine and Russia reported enemy drone attacks on their territories overnight Friday into Saturday, with kyiv saying it had neutralized 24 Russian drones while Moscow claimed to have shot down 47 Ukrainian ones.

In a statement, the Ukrainian Air Force said Russia had fired missiles at Ukraine from the Belgorod region, without specifying the number or type.

According to the source, Moscow also launched 28 drones at Ukraine, 24 of which were destroyed by air defenses over the Sumy, Poltava, Dnipropetrovsk, Mykolaiv and Kherson.

Separate Russian shelling also injured four people in the southern Zaporizhzhia region this morning, the head of the regional administration said on Saturday.

For its part, the Russian Defense Ministry said it had neutralized 47 Ukrainian drones during the night, including 17 over the southwestern Krasnodar region, 16 over the Sea of ​​Azov, and 12 over the Kursk region.

In the Russian region of Belgorod, which borders Ukraine, a Ukrainian drone attack killed one person in the village of Ustinka, the governor reported on Saturday. Telegram.

The governor of the Krasnodar region had earlier stated, also on Telegram, that Ukrainian drone attacks had damaged three houses and a car, without causing any casualties.