{"id":687064,"date":"2026-01-10T16:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T16:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/687064\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T16:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T16:20:10","slug":"ukrainian-drones-targeting-energy-infrastructure-spark-fire-in-russian-oil-depot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/687064\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukrainian drones targeting energy infrastructure spark fire in Russian oil depot"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Ukrainian drone strike sparked a fire<\/a> at an oil depot in Russia\u2019s southern Volgograd region, regional authorities said on Saturday.<\/p>\n

There were no immediate reports of casualties, regional Gov. Andrei Bocharov was quoted as saying in a Telegram post published on the channel of the local administration. The post did not specify the damage, but said that people living near the depot may have to be evacuated.<\/p>\n

Ukraine\u2019s long-range drone strikes on Russian energy<\/a> sites aim to deprive Moscow<\/a> of the oil export revenue it needs to pursue its full-scale invasion. Russia<\/a> wants to cripple the Ukrainian power grid, seeking to deny civilians access to heat, light and running water in what Kyiv<\/a> officials say is an attempt to \u201cweaponise winter”.<\/p>\n

Saturday’s attack came the day after Russia bombarded Ukraine<\/a> with hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles overnight into Friday, according to Ukrainian officials, killing at least four people in the capital. For only the second time in the nearly 4-year-old war, it used a powerful, new hypersonic missile<\/a> that struck western Ukraine on Friday in a clear warning to Kyiv\u2019s NATO<\/a> allies.<\/p>\n

Read moreRussia uses new ballistic missile in major attack on Kyiv and warning to the West<\/a><\/p>\n

The intense barrage and the launch of the nuclear-capable Oreshnik missile followed reports of major progress in talks<\/a> between Ukraine and its allies on how to defend the country from further Moscow aggression if a US-led peace deal is struck.<\/p>\n

Russia\u2019s Defence Ministry said Saturday that its forces used aviation, drones<\/a>, missiles and artillery to strike Ukrainian energy facilities and fuel-storage depots on Friday and overnight. It did not immediately specify the targets or damage.<\/p>\n

\u2060Kyiv’s \u200delectricity system was\u00a0\u200bturned off for \u200drepairs at the orders of the \u200bstate grid operator, the city \u200badministration said on Saturday.<\/p>\n

The city’s water and heat distribution systems, as well as electrified public transport, have also \u200dstopped working as a result of the \u200bpower outage, the administration said on Telegram.<\/p>\n

It said repairs were \u200cunder way, but did not indicate how long \u200dthe systems would remain shut down amid intense cold weather.<\/p>\n

Half of Kyiv’s apartment blocks were without heat on Friday after the latest Russian attack, as \u200dtemperatures sank below minus 10 degrees \u200cCelsius (14 degrees \u200bFahrenheit).<\/p>\n

Overnight into Saturday, Russia struck Ukraine with 121 drones and one Iskander-M ballistic missile, according to the Ukrainian air force. It said 94 drones were shot down.<\/p>\n

(FRANCE 24 with AP and Reuters)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Ukrainian drone strike sparked a fire at an oil depot in Russia\u2019s southern Volgograd region, regional authorities…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":687065,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[35,2000,299,36,332,657],"class_list":{"0":"post-687064","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-energy","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-france","12":"tag-russia","13":"tag-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115871719684161644","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=687064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/687065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}