Videos posted on social media show airstrikes carried out by two helicopters in Belgorod, forty kilometers from the Ukrainian border. kyiv has not confirmed this operation.
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A Russian official on Friday (April 1st) accused Ukraine of carrying out a helicopter attack on a “oil depot” in the city of Belgorod, in western Russia, about forty kilometers from the Ukrainian border. Videos posted on social networks show airstrikes carried out by two helicopters, without the Ukrainian army confirming this operation.
“A fire in an oil depot occurred because of an airstrike by two Ukrainian army helicopters that entered Russian territory at low altitude,” Belgorod Region Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said on his Telegram account. He also said firefighters were on the job to put out the blaze and that two depot employees were injured.
Videos on social media claimed to have been filmed in Belgorod show a helicopter firing missiles, then an explosion. On Wednesday, explosions also took place in an ammunition depot in the Belgorod region, without the Russian authorities clearly explaining the cause of the incident.
On February 25, local and Ukrainian media had mentioned a strike by kyiv against a Russian air base near Rostov, without it being officially confirmed. For his part, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said nothing about the situation in Belgorod on Friday. On the other hand, he assured that the Russian army had destroyed five Ukrainian ammunition depots and a fuel depot in the last 24 hours.