Ukraine launched a new wave of devastating drone attacks in Russia in the early hours of Saturday morning, inflicting major damage on fuel supplies.
Kyiv has intensified its aerial bombardment of Russia in recent weeks and months, targeting oil refineries, as well as ammunition warehouses.
The strikes are intended to disrupt supplies of fuel and weapons to Russia‘s troops on the frontlines.
UAVS have regularly succeeded in penetrating Russian air defences to cause mayhem and chaos deep inside the country.
The latest spectacular attack took place at 4.00am on Saturday in the Tsimlyansky district of Rostov region.
A drone struck an oil refinery, causing a massive blaze to break out at the facility in southern Russia.
Video images of the blaze show huge balls of flames leaping into the air and a column of thick black smoke rising skywards.
Emergency services rushed to the scene to try and put out the raging inferno and according to current reports are struggling to contain the fire.
The region’s governor Vasily Golubev said 49 firefighters and 14 units of equipment had been sent to tackle the inferno.
Preliminary reports say there have been no casualties as a result of the explosion and subsequent fire.
The latest drone attacks on Russian soil come after Putin’s army launched a massive bombardment of Kherson on Friday.
Roman Mrochko, the head of the regional military administration, said in a Telegram post that Russian artillery had carried out intense shelling for around an hour.
He said no one had been hurt and posted photos of collapsed and heavily damaged buildings.
Mrochko said damage to infrastructure meant that the water supply in the area may be affected, but that restoration work was ongoing.
Meanwhile, Russian forces recently made confirmed advances near Avdiivka and in the Donetsk-Zaporizhia region border area.
Russian infantry units are reportedly assaulting Ukrainian trench positions in single-file columns due to pervasive Ukrainian minefields and poor assault training.