Major blow for Putin as Ukraine kamikaze drones set Russian oil depots ablaze

UKRAINE set two major Russian oil depots ablaze with kamikaze drones.

Columns of smoke were seen rising into the sky on Friday night as the facilities were hit in Russia’s Krasnodar area.

Russian regional headquarters said fuel storage tanks had been set alight.

They also said separate drones were shot down in the Black Sea’s Yeysk.

Reports said the Ukrainians had also damaged a communications tower.

Putin boasts two palaces in Krasnodar region – an official residence in Sochi, and a private £1 billion clifftop residence at Gelendzhik likened to the lair of a James Bond villain.

It comes as Kyiv pursues repeated attacks on Russian oil depots, seeking to disrupt Vladimir Putin’s war machine.

Ukraine’s Sumy province came under fire the same night, with a Russian drone supplied by Iran damaging a power station and cutting off electricity and water.

The Ukrainian Air Force reported they shot down 24 of the 27 Shahed-type drones.

Ukraine previously blitzed a Russian airfield in the Krasnodar region.

While dozens of Russian tanks and armoured vehicles were blown up in a valley of death near Vuhledar city, eastern Ukraine last week.