On July 30, 2024, Ukrainian soldiers fired D-30 artillery in the direction of Toletsk, Ukraine.
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Ukraine’s military said on Saturday it had attacked Russia’s Morozovsk airport overnight as well as a number of oil depots and fuel storage facilities in three Russian regions.
The attack on the airport hit an ammunition depot where Russian troops store guided aerial bombs and other equipment, the military said.
Ukrainian President Zelensky wrote in the cable: “Wherever Russian fighter jets are, they must be destroyed by all effective means. It is also quite fair to attack Russian airports. We need to solve this problem together with our partners Security Question.
Ukraine’s president has repeatedly called on his Western allies to allow the use of their weapons for long-range attacks on Russia, in addition to attacking military targets near the border.
He said on Saturday that Russian forces had used more than 600 guided aerial bombs in attacks on Ukraine in the past week.
The Ukrainian military reported that attacks on oil depots and fuel and lubricant storage facilities in the Belgorod, Kursk and Rostov regions caused at least two oil tanks to catch fire.
In Russia, local officials reported that tanks at a fuel storage depot in the Kamensky district of the Rostov region caught fire due to a drone strike.
The governor of Belgorod also said that a drone launched by Ukraine caused a fire at a local oil storage warehouse, adding that the fire had been extinguished and no one was injured.
Ukraine has sharply increased its use of long-range drones to attack Russian oil facilities this year, seeking to disrupt sites that fuel Russian troops and the country’s economy amid Moscow’s 29-month invasion.
