The fire broke out Monday evening in a tank of 900 m3 of deposit and the fire then spread to nearby tanks, a statement of emergency service.

The television channel Russia Today aired footage of the warehouse in flames. The oil depot is located in the town of Vassylkiv, which has about 36,000 inhabitants.

A first assessment, provisional and unofficial, would state a dozen deaths. The affected site is an oil depot so that can accommodate very large oil stocks.

A drone flew over the area of ​​the fire to deliver the most accurate images, which show the extent of damage.

"It was decided to evacuate people from the area in a radius of 2 km and to prepare for the evacuation of the area within a 10 km radius if the fire spreads," said the department in a communiqué.Dans a radius of two kilometers of this deposit are:
- Another oil depot
- Ammunition storage warehouses of the Ukrainian army
- A military base of the army of the Ukrainian air