The regional governor of Belgorod said Kyiv's forces hit the site around 18 miles from the Ukrainian border and 40 miles from Kharkiv.
A video allegedly showing an oil depot on fire in the Russian city of Belgorod has been blamed on Ukrainian military helicopters by a local official.
Plumes of smoke are seen rising up in the sky in the footage widely shared on social media, and tweeted by media outlet Nexta, as well as reported by news outlets including Voice of America, theIn a post on the messaging app Telegram, Belgorod regional governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said"the fire at the oil depot occurred as a result of an air strike from two helicopters of the armed forces of Ukraine, which entered the territory of Russia at a low altitude. There are no victims.
Nexta tweeted video of helicopters it said had been filmed by local residents. Video images of the purported attack posted online showed what looked like several missiles being fired from low altitude, followed by an explosion, Reuters reported, although the images were not verified. In a series of messages on Telegram, Gladkov said that two oil workers had been injured but their lives were not in danger and residents in surrounding districts had been resettled"to a safer place."
, which owns the fuel depot, said no one was hurt in the fire but did not give information on its cause.
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