Missile strikes on a town in the Russian-occupied Luhansk region of eastern Ukraine caused a fire at a warehouse for fuel, the occupation authorities reported, reported DPA, quoted by BTA.
"As a result of a rocket attack with cluster munitions on Sverdlovsk, a fuel and lubricant storage facility was damaged," Leonid Pasechnik, the head of the pro-Russian separatist forces in the Luhansk region, wrote on his Telegram channel.
In 2016, Ukraine renamed the small city of Sverdlovsk, which has been occupied by Russian forces since 2014, to Dovzhansk. According to Ukrainian media, a Russian military base was also hit in the missile attack.
Videos on social media showed heavy clouds of smoke, but also a multi-storey barracks-style building on fire. Russian authorities on the ground have not provided official information on casualties or injuries.
For more than two years, Ukraine has been fending off a full-scale Russian military invasion. Kiev has recently fired missiles at oil refineries and fuel depots in addition to purely military targets to hamper Russian military logistics, DPA said.