AN OIL depot in an industrial city held by Russia has exploded in flames, marking be a major win for Ukraine.
Dramatic footage showed massive orange and red flames rise from the storage base in Russian-held Makiivka, Donetsk, Ukraine as dark plumes of smoke filled the air.
The strike on a Russian oil depot in Makiivka, near Donetsk, is captured by witnesses on film
Thick plumes of dark grey smoke fill the air above the storage base
Witnesses appeared from footage to be standing close to the inferno, filming from populated places including a carpark.
Russian sources acknowledged the artillery strike had hit its target.
War correspondent Yuri Kotenok said: “They fired from a multiple rocket launcher.
“A total of four missiles were fired.”
Air defences are said to have intercepted at least one multiple launch rocket system strike but “several missiles hit the facility, where a large fire occurred.
“There was no information about the wounded or casualties.”
Telegram sources referred to an alleged part of a rocket aimed at the oil depot, while Astra media pointed to the inferno being the result “of a missile hitting an oil depot” in Makiivka.
It comes after a Russian factory which made engines for Vladimir Putin’s tanks and armoured vehicles was rocked by a massive explosion last month.
A fireball shot into the sky after the blast at the Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant in the Ural mountains near the border with Kazakhstan.
Locals reported hearing a powerful “explosion”, while footage showed the moment the factory went up in flames in a huge inferno.
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