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Editor's Note: The story was updated with information about an attack on an oil depot in Russia's Kaluga Oblast, reported by Ukraine's General Staff.
Ukrainian forces attacked oil depots in Russia's Tula and Kaluga oblasts overnight on Jan. 18, according to the General Staff and a Kyiv Independent's source in Ukraine's military intelligence (HUR).
The drones, operated by Ukraine's military intelligence (HUR), hit the oil depot in Tula Oblast at least 10 times in this attack, the source claimed.
Tula Oblast, located south of Moscow, has regularly come under attack by Ukrainian drones as Kyiv aims at damaging Russia's oil industry, which is crucial for sustaining Moscow's war effort, as well as its military hardware.
Tula Oblast Governor Dmitry Milyaev said that a fuel storage tank caught fire at "one of the enterprises in the region." No casualties were reported.
Videos posted on social media and shared by residents appear to show a large fire at an oil depot in the town of Uzlovaya in the region.
Ukrainian soldiers also hit an oil depot in the Russian town of Lyudinovo in Kaluga Oblast overnight, causing a fire, Ukraine's General Staff reported.
Lyudinovo lies around 200 kilometers (124 miles) north of the Ukrainian border.
The oil depot is owned by Kaluganefteprodukt, a subsidiary of Russia's state-controlled oil company Rosneft, according to the statement.
"(This is) a logistics center that supplies units of the Russian armed forces directly involved in the war against Ukraine," the military said.
The Kyiv Independent could not verify these claims.
The attack came amid an uptick in Ukraine’s drone attacks targeting Russian energy infrastructure.
Earlier in the night, Ukrainian drones also reportedly attacked an oil depot in Russia's Kaluga Oblast, causing a large fire.
Kateryna Denisova
