Russia blames Ukraine for helicopter strikes on a fuel depot in Russian territory

 A Russian authority blamed Ukraine for mounting a helicopter assault on a fuel station inside Russian region Friday, as film surfaced of the office inundated on fire.

 The legislative head of Russia's Belgorod district asserted two Ukrainian military helicopters flew across the line at low height on Friday morning and struck the fuel storage space, setting a huge number of gallons of fuel ablaze.

A representative for Ukraine's safeguard service declined to remark on the Russian allegations. CNN couldn't confirm the Russian cases.

A still image taken from video footage shows a fuel depot on fire in the city of Belgorod on April 1, 2022.

"I might want to stress that Ukraine is playing out a guarded activity against Russian hostility on the region of Ukraine," Oleksandr Motuzyanyk, a representative for Ukraine's safeguard service, said in a broadcast explanation Friday.

"That doesn't mean Ukraine must be answerable for each error or occasion or calamity that happened in the region of the Russian Federation. This isn't whenever we first are seeing such allegations. Thusly, I will neither affirm nor deny this data."

CNN geolocated and checked online entertainment recordings showing two helicopters flying over the Russian city of Belgorod, close to the Ukrainian boundary, yet can't affirm the helicopters are Ukrainian. In one video, they are spotted during an assault on a fuel storeroom. The video, which was taken shots a good ways off of around 1,800 feet (550 meters) from the office, shows numerous strikes and an ensuing shoot somewhere far off.

The Belgorod district - - which is out and about from Moscow to Ukraine's second-biggest city, Kharkiv - - has been a center of fuel supplies that have controlled Russia's attack on Ukraine.

The following fire "immersed fuel repositories" at the office, Russian state news source TASS announced, referring to the service of crisis circumstances.

Around 16,000 cubic meters (3.52 million gallons) of fuel were ablaze, including eight tanks with 2,000 cubic meters of fuel every, Russian state news source Ria Novosti detailed, referring to crisis administrations, and there was the likelihood that the fire could spread to another eight tanks.

Two workers of the stop were harmed in the fire yet their lives were not at serious risk, Belgorod's territorial lead representative Vyacheslav Gladkov said on his Telegram station prior Friday. Occupants nearby the warehouse were being cleared yet there was no danger to the number of inhabitants in the city, he added.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has been educated about the supposed strike, Kremlin representative Dmitry Peskov said Friday, cautioning that the occurrence could frustrate continuous exchanges between Kyiv and Moscow.

"The president was educated about Belgorod," Peskov said in a telephone call with journalists. "You realize that the service of crisis circumstances was sent there. Steps are being taken to redesign fuel supply focuses on the goal that what occurred for no situation influences the degree of supply of all fundamental sorts of fuel."The Russian military has guaranteed air predominance over Ukraine.

"Air prevalence during an activity is an outright truth," Peskov said. "What's more, with respect to what occurred, it presumably ought not to be us giving out evaluations, yet our regulation implementation offices."