Volgograd refinery ablaze in The Sun's drone-attack report
The footage-led roundup also reports damage in Ukraine's Vinnytsia and further strikes on Russian industrial and military sites.
Why this story? One of The Sun's most watched videos since yesterday, with 71,549 views.
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- 0:23The Sun shows the Volgograd refinery burning and attributes the fire to a Ukrainian drone attack.
- 1:44A nighttime explosion appears at a Rostov facility that the report says Ukrainian drones struck.
- 1:57The report says a Russian attack injured two women and damaged homes and a kindergarten in Vinnytsia.
- 2:30Ust-Luga footage shows damage and fire following the previously reported port strike.
- 3:45Surveillance footage shows an explosion at the Bratsk Aluminium Plant, reportedly triggered by a forklift.
- 5:37Ukrainian special forces say drone operators struck two Russian brigade-level ammunition depots in southern Ukraine.
Flames rise from the Lukoil refinery in Volgograd in footage published by The Sun, which attributes the blaze to a Ukrainian drone attack. The refinery, among Russia's largest, is the focus of a new compilation covering fires and strikes on both sides of the war.
The Volgograd footage adds a separate industrial site to the newspaper's earlier coverage of Omsk and Ust-Luga. The video then moves to a nighttime explosion at a production and storage facility in Rostov, which The Sun also reports was struck by Ukrainian drones.
In Ukraine, the report shows damaged buildings in Vinnytsia. Its captions say an overnight Russian attack injured two women and damaged a kindergarten, private homes and apartment buildings.
Not every industrial explosion in the compilation is presented as a military strike. Surveillance footage from the Bratsk Aluminium Plant shows a large blast inside the facility, reportedly triggered by a forklift. The roundup also returns to Ust-Luga, showing damage and a continuing fire following the previously reported port attack.
Later sections carry Ukrainian military footage and claims: strikes on Russian logistics and vehicles in occupied Donbas, ammunition depots in southern Ukraine and a base used by Russia's Akhmat regiment. Another sequence shows helicopter crews intercepting a Russian Shahed drone, according to the report.
An oil refinery in Volgograd and one of Russia’s largest.
More on Wikipedia ›A city on the western bank of the Volga in Russia, formerly called Stalingrad. It is the administrative centre of Volgograd Oblast.
More on Wikipedia ›A settlement and railway station near Russia’s border with Estonia, where the River Luga meets the Gulf of Finland.
More on Wikipedia ›A city on the Southern Bug river in west-central Ukraine and the administrative centre of Vinnytsia Oblast.
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