Ukraine assaults Russian oil depot, aviation plant, command publish in a single day, army says

Ukrainian forces struck the Liskinskaya oil depot in Russia's Voronezh Oblast, the Smolensk Aviation Plant, and a Russian command publish in Donetsk Oblast in a single day on Jan. 21, Ukraine's Normal Workers stated.

The announcement comes as Russia's Protection Ministry reported intercepting 55 Ukrainian drones in a large-scale in a single day strike, together with 10 over Smolensk Oblast and 6 over Voronezh Oblast.

The Liskinskaya oil depot was focused once more after being hit by a Ukrainian drone assault on Jan. 16. In the latest strike, Ukrainian drones hit gas and lubricant tanks, beginning a hearth on the Rosneft-run facility, the Normal Workers reported.

An assault in opposition to the depot was confirmed by Voronezh Oblast Governor Alexander Gusev. The village of Liski, the place the depot is positioned, lies round 140 kilometers (90 miles) north of Russia's border with Ukraine's Kharkiv Oblast.

One other assault, carried out collectively by the Unmanned Techniques Forces and the Particular Operations Forces, hit the infrastructure of the Smolensk Aviation Plant, with explosions reported on the ability's territory, in response to the Normal Workers.

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Smolensk lies lower than 60 kilometers (round 35 miles) east of the Russia-Belarus border and a few 270 kilometers (170 miles) north of Ukraine. Town's aviation plant is concerned within the manufacturing and modernization of the Su-25 army plane, stated Andrii Kovalenko, the counter-disinformation chief at Ukraine's Nationwide Safety and Protection Council.

The Ukrainian army additionally reported a profitable hit in opposition to a command publish of Russia's twenty ninth Mixed Arms Military within the occupied Volnovakha in Donetsk Oblast.

"The results of the strike are being clarified," the Normal Workers stated with out specifying the weaponry used.

Ukrainian long-range drones frequently goal Russian army and industrial services to undermine Moscow's capacity to wage its full-scale warfare in Ukraine.

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