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Ambiguous for operational reasons or some other cause. or this is the result of russian action. and yet, either deliberate or accidental and yet they are choosing publicly so far to state that ukraine was responsible for this attack on their own territory, john. >> phil black for us louive fors on the ground in lviv. let's get insights from cedric leighton. colonel, great to have you with us. we talked about belgorod in the early days of the war because we were there, watching it a staging ground for forces coming in. this is a freeze frame of this helicopter. from your experience, what is tha...

A town where they hit an oil depot there. this city seems to be one of the major staging areas in southwestern russia. remember the satellite image on the 23rd of february? a major staging ground for all this equipment, armored personnel carriers, the field hospital, the tanks that had gathered there and now we believe based on the video we got overnight. roll it here. this is the after effect of the oil depot. russians are blaming ukrainians. ukrainians have not confirmed or denied a helicopter hit. why would that be important? significant because it would be now the first time the ukrainians...

Belgorod is about 45 miles inside russian territory, north of ukrainian border. the attack took place at night according to a video and according to the local governor that a fuel depot inside russia was destroyed. ukrainian officials won't confirm or deny if they had two helicopters flying through the night 25 miles into russian territory striking target. they would certainly if it was taken place. they do seem to be at the very least leaving open the possibility that they may have carried this out and eat comes after two russian strikes on ukrainian fuel depot over the last several days. one...

That's about more than 3 million gallons of fuel. that's according to the state news agency in russia. so this is quite a significant hit. now, the russian defense ministry says that this fuel depot did not supply russian troops in ukraine. that it is only for civilian use. but i think it's important to mention that belgorod is the main staging ground for russian troops. so, this is bound to be a significant blow on the logistical chain. i think it's also interesting, however, that while the russian side has been putting this forward, it's also an embarrassing admission because russia has clai...

In ukraine. but as you heard in that report it's a very highly militarized city, and it is the main staging ground for a lot of the military activity by russian troops in eastern ukraine. and this fuel depot is bound to have a big logistical impact on all that. according to the russian news service agency, state news agency citing emergency officials there, they have reported that 16,000 cubic meters, more than 3 million gallons of fuel have been set on fire as a result of this attack. so that is bound to create quite a big hit on the logistics of the russian military going into eastern ukrain...