A column of black smoke billows from industrial facilities south of Moscow on Monday morning following Ukrainian drone attacks overnight. Photo by StringerEPA
July 20 (UPI) -- Ukrainian drones hit an oil storage facility and a logistics plants in the Moscow region overnight, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Monday.
Zelensky said Ukrainian forces also struck two Russian oil tankers in the Black Sea as well as four cargo vessels.
"We are responding, justly, to every Russian strike against our cities and communities. This war must be brought to an end, and that is only possible by increasing the pressure on the sole cause of this war -- Russia," said Zelensky, who said onlly that the targets in the Moscow region were more than 250 miles from Ukraine and did identify their exact location.
Images and footage circulating online claim to be of black smoke columns from an oil depot set ablaze in Podolsk, about 25 miles south of Moscow.
