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BBC Verify Live: Satellite imagery shows Crimea oil depot ablaze for second time in a year

BBC Verify Live: Satellite imagery shows Crimea oil depot ablaze for second time in a year

Rob CorpBBC Verify Live editor

Good morning from BBC Verify Live.

We reported yesterday on a Ukrainian strike on an oil depot at Feodosia in Russian-occupied Crimea. We’ve seen satellite imagery this morning that vividly captures a huge plume of black smoke at the site. The Feodosia facility was previously attacked almost exactly a year ago.

We’re checking reports that another oil refinery is ablaze – in what could be one of the deepest attacks inside Russia. According to what we’re seeing online a facility at Tyumen in Siberia was struck overnight – that is up to 2,000 km from the border with Ukraine.

As Israel marks the second anniversary of the 7 October attack by Hamas, in which about 1,200 people were killed and 251 others were taken hostage, we’re continuing to follow the situation on the ground inside Gaza.

We’ve also been investigating what has happened to the hostages who were taken into Gaza two years ago today and will bring you more on what we know later. More than 67,000 people have been killed in Gaza, according to the Hamas-run health ministry.

And our fact-checkers will be listening to shadow justice secretary Robert Jenrick when he speaks to the Conservative Party conference later this morning. We’ll see what more he has to say about abolishing the Sentencing Council for England and Wales which issues guidelines to judges.

There’s more from BBC Verify on our pages of the BBC News website.