Images showing large plume of smoke, flames erupt from fire at Belgorod oil depot. Ukrainian military helicopters have carried out a strike on a fuel storage depot in Russia's western town of Belgorod, sparking a huge fire, the regional governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said. Belgorod lies around 40 kilometres (25 miles) from Russia's border with Ukraine and some 80 kilometres from the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, which has been pummelled by Russian forces since Moscow sent troops to Ukraine on February 24.

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