{"id":43572,"date":"2025-08-04T19:50:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T19:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/43572\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T19:50:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T19:50:11","slug":"ukraine-confirms-drone-strike-on-fuel-depot-at-russias-sochi-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/43572\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine confirms drone strike on fuel depot at Russia&#8217;s Sochi airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian drones successfully struck an airport fuel depot in the Russian resort city of Sochi on Aug. 3, Ukraine&#8217;s General Staff reported.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A strong fire broke out on the territory of the facility. It is known that the military aviation of the <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/GeneralStaffZSU\/27386\" rel=\"nofollow\">Russian invaders<\/a> was also stationed at the airport,&#8221; it said in a statement on Aug. 4.<\/p>\n<p>Reports of the<a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/ukraines-drone-strike-reportedly-sparks-fire-at-oil-depot-in-russias-sochi\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> strike<\/a> first emerged in the early hours of Aug. 3, with Russia\u2019s state-owned RIA Novosti reporting that a 2,000-cubic-meter (approximately 70,000-cubic-foot) fuel tank was on fire.<\/p>\n<p>Videos posted to social media purported to show the view from a plane landing at the airport with the burning depot clearly visible.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Today, passengers of planes landing at Sochi (Adler) airport saw this, the war on their doorstep. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KVWFUSdP4v\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/KVWFUSdP4v<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Shaun Pinner (@olddog100ua) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/olddog100ua\/status\/1952085288546689342?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">August 3, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Russia\u2019s civil aviation agency, Rosaviatsia, later said flights at <a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/tag\/sochi\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sochi<\/a> Airport were suspended &#8220;to ensure air safety.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Russian Telegram channel Crimean Wind <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/Crimeanwind\/83969\" rel=\"nofollow\">reported<\/a> on Aug. 3 that Sochi Airport imposed fuel restrictions due to the attack on the oil reservoir, forcing some flights departing from Sochi Airport to make additional landings at alternate airfields to refuel.<\/p>\n<p>The drone strike is a part of Ukraine&#8217;s continued campaign to target Russian energy infrastructure seen as critical to Moscow\u2019s war effort.<\/p>\n<p>Sochi, which hosted the 2014 Winter Olympics, has rarely been targeted during the war, though a previous Ukrainian drone attack in the Adler district late last month reportedly killed a woman, according to Russian authorities.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"kg-bookmark-container\" href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/ukraine-hits-5-russian-fighter-jets-in-new-sbu-special-operation-in-russian-occupied-crimea\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>5 Russian fighter jets hit by Ukraine\u2019s SBU in drone operation in occupied Crimea, one destroyed<\/p>\n<p>Drones operated by Ukraine\u2019s Security Service (SBU) targeted an airfield in the city of Saky.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Article image\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" style=\"color:transparent;object-fit:cover\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1754337011_18_image\"\/><\/a><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ukrainian drones successfully struck an airport fuel depot in the Russian resort city of Sochi on Aug. 3,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43573,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-43572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}