OLENA MAZURENKO - FRIDAY, 1 APRIL 2022, 19:27
The Russian Defence Ministry has claimed that two Ukrainian Mi-24 helicopters carried out an airstrike on an oil depot in Russian Belgorod, although in the early days of the war, the Russian ministry said it had destroyed all Ukrainian aircraft.
Source: Russian Ministry of Defence, quoted by pro-Kremlin media
Quote: "On 1 April at about 5 a.m. Moscow time, 2 Ukrainian Mi-24 helicopters entered Russian airspace at an extremely low altitude.
The Ukrainian helicopters launched a missile attack on a civilian oil storage facility on the outskirts of Belgorod. As a result of the missile strikes, individual tanks were damaged and caught fire."
Background:
Russian presidential press secretary Dmitriy Peskov said that the explosion at the oil depot in Belgorod was not conducive to creating favourable conditions for the continuation of negotiations.