KYIV, Ukraine, Jan 10, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Ukraine hit a Russian ammo depot 
and drone storage facility in a drone and missile attack in the early hours 
of Friday, a Ukrainian security source said.

The source in the SBU security service said it had launched the joint 
operation with the navy, Kyiv's latest cross-border aerial attack on Russian 
territory.

Russian officials earlier reported an industrial facility near the village of 
Chaltyr in the Rostov region bordering Ukraine was ablaze following a drone 
barrage, without elaborating.

"SBU drones and a Neptune missile targeted an ammunition and reconnaissance 
drone storage facility near the village of Chaltyr in the Rostov region," the 
Ukrainian source said.

It claimed the drones had overloaded Russian air-defence systems, clearing 
the way for the missile to hit the military facility.

In a statement, the source added that the attack would limit Russian drone 
attacks on Ukrainian cities.

The head of Russia's Rostov region, Yuri Slusar, said Ukraine had attacked 
overnight and that air-defence systems had downed 16 drones near Chaltyr.

"In the village of Krym a fire is being extinguished on the territory of a 
production enterprise," following the attack, he said, adding later that the 
blaze had been extinguished.

In recent days, Ukraine has claimed strikes on Russian military command posts 
in the occupied Donetsk region and the western Russian region of Kursk.

And earlier this week it said it had hit an oil depot that supplies a 
military airfield in Russia's Saratov region, some 500 kilometres (310 miles) 
from the warring countries' shared border.

Moscow has also ramped up its missile and drone attacks since winter, casting 
some of the strikes as retaliation for Kyiv's use of Western-supplied weapons 
on Russia.