Ukrainian soldiers fire a D-30 artillery gun towards Toretsk, Ukraine, on July 30, 2024.
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The Ukrainian military said on Saturday it had attacked Russia’s Morozovsk airport and several oil depots and fuel storage facilities in three Russian regions overnight.
The military said the attack on the airport hit an ammunition depot where Russian forces stored guided bombs and other equipment.
“Russian combat aviation must be destroyed wherever it appears, by all effective means. Attacking Russian airfields is also quite fair. And we need this common solution with our partners – a security solution,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy wrote on the Telegram messaging app.
The Ukrainian president has repeatedly called on Western allies to allow the use of their weapons for long-range strikes on Russia, in addition to attacking military targets near the border.
He said on Saturday that Russian forces had used more than 600 guided bombs to attack Ukraine in the past week.
According to the Ukrainian military report, the attack on oil depots and fuel and lubricant storage facilities in the Belgorod, Kursk and Rostov regions set at least two oil tanks on fire.
In Russia, local officials reported that tanks at a fuel depot in the Kamensky district of the Rostov region caught fire after being hit by a drone.
The governor of the Belgorod region also said that a drone launched by Ukraine caused a fire at an oil depot there, adding that the fire had been extinguished and no one was injured.
This year, Ukraine has significantly stepped up its use of long-range drones to attack Russian oil facilities, trying to destroy sites that fuel Russian forces and the country’s economy during Moscow’s 29-month invasion.
