INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
A fire has erupted at a key Russian oil depot and a second military site near the Ukrainian border, Russian authorities said early
dispatched fire and rescue crews to the site at 2:00 a.m
arriving at the site after sunrise.Emergency services told the RIA Novosti news agency that another site it declined to identify has also
been engulfed in the fire.State television later reported that the first location was a civilian facility housing 10,000 tons of fuel and
the second a military site with 5,000 tons.It was not immediately clear whether the fires less than 100 kilometers from the Ukrainian border
said on Twitter that reports indicated the second location could be a military base with on-site fuel tanks
He suggested the fires may have been caused by a Tochka-U tactical ballistic missile, which has the range to reach both targets if deployed
purported links in Rusian security services showed what they described as the moment of the explosion, accompanied by sounds similar to a
passes through Ukraine and Belarus to deliver oil to Poland, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and the Baltics.Corrections were made to this
article to indicate that the fire engulfed an oil depot, not a pipeline.
