Russian drone strike sparks fire at gas station in Kharkiv
A Russian drone struck a gas station in the Kyivskyi district of Kharkiv late on Aug. 2, sparking a fire, city mayor Ihor Terekhov reported on Telegram.
Russian drone attacked a gas station in Kharkiv's Kyivskyi district on August 2, igniting a fire, according to city mayor Ihor Terekhov's Telegram post. On July 31, a similar drone strike caused a gas station fire in the Shevchenkivskyi district, with no reported casualties. In July, Oleksandr Skoryk, a member of the Kharkiv Oblast Council, said Russian shelling had destroyed more than 80 gas stations in Kharkiv Oblast, leaving the Kharkiv–Poltava highway without fuel.
However, OVA head Oleh Synehubov later denied this claim, stating that claims of a complete lack of operational filling stations along the highway were false. Synehubov assured the public that Kharkiv Oblast was not facing fuel shortages, and said regional authorities and gas station operators had agreed to enhance protective measures for fuel infrastructure in the region.
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