From the road that runs alongside the oil refinery in Lyssytchansk, in the Lugansk oblast, the bombardment is still clearly visible this Saturday at the end of the day.
Russian forces earlier struck the oil site in this town in eastern Ukraine located close to the front line.
Tanks are on fire and a long plume of black smoke emerges, this Saturday at the end of the afternoon.
"In the morning they bombed the oil refinery, a fire broke out (...) and the extinction is continuing at the moment," said Ukrainian governor of the Lugansk region, Sergei Gaïdaï, on his Telegram channel.
“The Russians systematically target her to exhaust the rescuers.
There is no fuel there.
Only hydrocarbon residues burn.
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Constant strikes for several days
The refinery is about four kilometers west of the city of Lysychansk.
This town and its twin Severodonetsk are the target of daily strikes from Moscow, AFP journalists on the spot have noted in recent days.
Severodononetsk is on the front line, about 50 km east of Kramatorsk, the capital of Donbass.
About 400 civilians have been buried in Severodonetsk in individual graves since the start of the war, the governor announced on Tuesday.
In the city of Lysytchansk, on the other hand, "the dead are buried in mass graves", he added.
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This attack, like others perpetrated in recent days, does not bode well for the continuation of operations in the Donbass.
The region, relentlessly coveted by Vladimir Putin, should in the coming weeks be the scene of an "unprecedented escalation of violence in the Donbass", according to our military analyst Pierre Servent, who predicts that "everything we have seen for fifty days will be perpetrated to the power of 20” on this territory.
