Oleksandr Motuzyanyk, spokesman for the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, declined to comment on Russian accusations about the attack by Ukrainian helicopters on a fuel base in the city of Belgorod, south of Russia.
“I would like to emphasize that Ukraine is conducting a defensive operation against Russian aggression on the territory of Ukraine,” he said in a televised statement.
He added: “That does not mean that Ukraine has to be responsible for every miscalculation or event or catastrophe that occurs on the territory of the Russian Federation. This is not the first time we have witnessed such accusations. Therefore, I will not confirm or deny this information,” he said.
Russia accused Ukraine on Friday of attacking an oil depot on the outskirts of the Russian city of Belgorod, next to the Russian-Ukrainian border, which caused a major fire.
“The fire in the oil depot occurred as a result of an air strike by two helicopters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine that entered Russian territory at low altitude. There are no fatalities,” said the governor of Belgorod, Viacheslav Gladkov, quoted by Russian agencies, who indicated that there were two wounded.
The alleged attack was not denied or confirmed by Ukraine, and experts are analyzing whether it could be a “false flag” operation orchestrated by Moscow to put sticks in the wheel to the peace talks they are holding with the Kiev government.
Emergency services said the fire spread to eight fuel tanks, each with a capacity of 2,000 cubic meters.
“There is a risk that the fire will continue to spread,” said a source quoted by the official Russian agency TASS, which specified that the territory of the oil depot houses a total of 27 tanks, 14 of them as those affected by the fire.
The Russian Ministry for the Emergency Situation reported that about 170 firefighters and fire extinguishers are involved in the work to suppress the fire.
Belgorod is about 30 kilometers from the Ukrainian border and about 70 kilometers from Kharkiv, the most important city in eastern Ukraine, besieged by Russia since 24 February.
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