(Reuters) – The head of Ukraine’s annexed Luhansk region said on Monday that Ukrainian shelling had damaged a fuel depot and caused a fire in the city of Dovzhansk.
It was the third Ukrainian attack on depots in the region this month.
Leonid Pasechnik said on the messaging app Telegram that Ukrainian forces had used cluster bombs in the attack on the city, which the Russian-installed local government called Sverdlovsk, its Soviet-era name.
Pasechnik said emergency services were on the scene to protect nearby buildings from the fire in the city, which is south of the region’s capital Luhansk.
It was the second Ukrainian attack on the region during the day, Pasechnik said.
There was no official Ukrainian comment on the fuel depot attack. Ukrainian war bloggers reported on the strike, posting photos of a large plume of smoke billowing skyward in what appeared to be a wooded area.
Bloggers also reported an earlier strike in the region, with photos of rubble outside a high-rise building.
Pasechnik reported earlier in May strikes at oil warehouses in Luhansk and in the town of Rovenky, near Dovzhansk.
