russians to suggest that ukraine was getting newly aggressive. we ll check with you later on. sandra: russian oil depot 22 miles from the border with ukraine. national security correspondent jennifer griffin joins us. the latest from the pentagon and what they are learning about that at this hour, jennifer. the pentagon is remaining mum on whether or not it was a pair of mi-24 helicopter gun ships that fired on the depot john was referencing, 30 miles inside russia and whether they were ukrainian or not. the ukrainians do have mi-24 helicopter gun ships. satellite imagery from the area has been shrouded in cloud cover. early this morning the governor of the region in russia says it was a pair of helicopters that fired on the oil depot used by russia, resulting in a ball of fire scene from across the city
politics today for in the to reverse course on climate change that they ve laid out. kremlin accusing ukraine of attacking a oil depot in russia. a massive fire that russia says was sparked when the site was struck by missiles from ukraine. ukraine hasn t confirmed that yet. we re in lviv with alex. russia has blown up two oil depots on the western side of ukraine in just the last week. but this strike would be ukraine s first such move. russia is accusing ukrainian troops of blowing up this oil depot in bell grad 30 miles across the border using two helicopter gun ships injuring two people. now, this does need to be taken with a grain of salt because ukraine s foreign minister has not confirmed this strike. meanwhile talks are resuming
of false flag operation out of russia from the beginning. you are right, you see the video of the helicopter attacks, the reports are coming from russia state media citing the governor. russia officials are not confirming this, they are concerned this is pretext or provocation russia could use to escalate the assault on ukraine. we are treating this obviously carefully, digging hard into it, so far there is no confirmation from anyone other than russian sources as to this attack showing helicopter gun ships attack whatting is fuel depot with the building burning at night. todd. ashley: thanks, griff. fox news alert. release of one million barrels of oil per day from america s strategic reserves.
the run-in taking part in the north part of the country. jennifer griffin is live at the pentagon. fox news learned in the past week alone russian fighter jets have intercepted use fighter jets at least three times in a dramatic escollation over sea. the russians have not attempted to shoot down the planes but the russians want to make their presence felt. it is confirmed four russian ships launched cruise missiles that flew over iran and iraq before striking isis-controlled area in syria. it is the first time since striking last week they started targeting an isis area. yesterday helicopter gun ships
any of the points in iraq from baghdad to anbar province to the al asaad base there are 170 troops at another base 200 in irbil. there are contingency plans if they do come under fire and it cannot be dealt with to get them out of there but, remember there are a number of u.s. apache helicopters there. these helicopter gun ships are able to move in very closely, push insurgents back if they get too close. that did happen on one occasion in irbil. we are told the insurgents have not come that close again, but the fact is the bottom line is that these attacks by insurgents are happening on a regular basis where several hundred u.s. troops are located. wolf. these u.s. troops are relying on iraqi forces for protection, and we know there s not a high reliability given the fact that so many iraqi troops have abandoned their positions over