A Ukraine drone attack sparked a fire at an oil depot in the Kamensky district of Russia's southern region of Rostov, its governor said on Wednesday, confirming media reports that several tanks were on fire, Reuters reports.
"There are no casualties," the governor, Vasily Golubev, said on the Telegram messaging app. "Firefighters are extinguishing the fire."
Russian air defence units destroyed four drones over the v region overnight, the Russian defence ministry said, without mention of an attack on the depot.
Videos posted on Russian social media showed what looked like large tanks ablaze at night. Reuters was able to identify one of the videos as locaed in Rostov's Kamensky district.
There was no immediate comment from Ukraine.
Separately, Alexander Gusev, the governor of Voronezh, which borders Ukraine, said debris from a Ukraine-launched drone over the region sparked a fire "near explosive objects". But there was no detonation, he added.
The fire was doused, Gusev said on Telegram, and residents were returning to homes in two settlements from which they had been evacuated.
