KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — A village in Russia’s western border region was evacuated Sunday after debris from a Ukrainian drone crash set a nearby warehouse on fire and triggered a series of explosions, local authorities said.
Footage on social media showed plumes of black smoke rising from the Voronezh region and a series of loud explosions being heard.
Governor Alexander Gusev said the crashed debris caused an “explosive detonation.” No casualties were reported, but residents of nearby villages in the Podgorensky district have been evacuated, the governor said. Roads have also been closed and emergency services, military and government officials are at the scene.
The Russian Defense Ministry did not mention the attack in its morning briefing but said its air defense systems had destroyed a Ukrainian drone over the Belgorod region.
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Authorities in Russia’s Krasnodar region said on Saturday that a fire at an oil depot had also been caused by falling drone debris. Russia’s emergency services said the blaze had been put out by Sunday morning.
The attack came after a Ukrainian military spokesman told The Associated Press on Thursday that Kiev’s forces had withdrawn from an area outside Khasiv Yar, a strategic town in Ukraine’s Donetsk region that had been reduced to rubble by a month-long Russian offensive.
