THIS is the moment a Russian oil depot exploded in a huge fireball after Ukrainian strike in yet another humiliating blow to Putin.
Plumes of black smoke could be seen rising in the sky from Vyborg after Ukraine pounded the oil refinery near the Nato border with Finland.
East2WestA fire ignited after loud ‘bangs’ at an oil refinery in Vyborg[/caption]
East2WestUkrainian strike targeted oil depot in a bid to damage Putin’s economy[/caption]
Footage shows the oil depot engulfed in a raging inferno as the Leningrad regional governor Alexander Drozdenko denied a Ukrainian kamikaze drone had hit the facility.
He also denied there was a fire but admitted “there was a bang due to the use of pyrotechnics”.
It is not immediately clear if it was a sabotage or a drone strike that blitzed the facility.
But it came as another blow to Putin as Ukraine has been targeting oil refineries in a bid to damage the despot’s economy and disrupt the war machine.
In the past four months, Ukrainian forces have managed to hit almost two dozen oil depots.
The warmonger has faced even more humiliation as another attack overnight struck an oil depot in his favourite holiday spot where he boasts two palaces.
Explosions were heard in Slavyansk-on-Kuban with evidence of kamikaze drones blitzing the facility.
A military airfield was also hit in the village of Kushchevskaya, Krasnodar region, and unconfirmed reports of a ship struck in naval port Sevastopol in annexed Crimea.
The damaged ship was reportedly towed away to a repair yard from Sevastopol bay, according to Crimean Wind channel.
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