More than 120 firefighters were trying to extinguish a blaze at an oil depot in the Russian city of Sochi that was sparked by a Ukrainian drone attack, regional Governor Veniamin Kondratyev said early on Sunday on the Telegram messaging app.

Videos posted to social media purported to show the view from a plane landing at the airport with the burning depot clearly visible.

Early on Sunday a massive oil depot fire was raging near Russia's Black Sea resort of Sochi - blamed by the Russian authorities on a Ukrainian drone attack. Sochi's airport in the same area - Adler district - suspended flights.

Russian officials say a Ukrainian drone attack on an oil depot near Russia’s Black Sea resort of Sochi has sparked a major fire

An overnight Ukrainian drone attack has sparked a fire at an oil depot in Sochi, the southwestern Russian resort that hosted the 2014 Winter Olympic Games, local authorities say.

The strike appears to be the first confirmed instance of Ukraine using a first-person view drone to damage a helicopter.

Russian forces have attacked Ukraine with 104 Shahed loitering munitions, decoy drones of various types and eight high-speed (jet-powered) drones since the evening of 7 August. Ukrainian air defence has managed to down 82 aerial assets,

It's a rare thing for a billion-dollar air defense system to be upstaged by a few drones, but that's what happened in Crimea back in June. The world saw Ukraine's Ghosts unit, as ominously named as their tactics are brutal,

The Ukrainian Air Force destroyed over 80 Russian drones last night. Most of them were Shahed drones, as well as jet drones and simulators. On the night of August 8, Russia attacked Ukraine with 108 air weapons: ・104 Shahed strike drones ・various types of drone simulators ・and 8 high-speed (jet) drones.