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Ukraine has launched a wave of drone assaults on Russia, inflicting fires at two Russian energy vegetation.
In response to the Russian Protection Ministry, greater than 158 Ukrainian drones focused 15 areas of the nation, together with the capital Moscow.
The Russian navy claimed that these drones had been intercepted and destroyed.
However on account of the assault, a hearth broke out at an oil refinery in Moscow in a “separate technical room,” the town’s mayor stated.
Sergei Sobyanin reported that at the least 11 drones had been aimed on the capital and surrounding areas.
In the meantime, 120 kilometers from the Russian capital, within the Tver area, loud explosions had been heard close to the Konakovo energy plant.
Russian media studies that there’s a hearth on the manufacturing facility.
The area’s governor, Igor Rudenya, acknowledged that the hearth brought on by an assault within the Konakovsky district had been introduced beneath management, however didn’t present particulars of the injury.
Native officers additionally reported that drones had been used to assault the Kashira nuclear energy plant within the Moscow area, however no fires, injury or casualties had been reported.
Ukraine has not but commented on the claims.
However Ukrainian forces have stepped up their long-range strikes into Russia in latest months, firing dozens of drones concurrently at strategic targets a number of instances every week.
In response to BBC Information, they’re being helped to hold out a whole lot of long-range assaults in Russia utilizing Western know-how and finance.
A 23-year-old truck driver has been killed in Ukraine after a Russian airstrike on a grain convoy within the Sumy area, native officers stated.
Prosecutors stated 4 others had been injured within the assault, which set a truck on hearth and broken about 20 others.
The Ukrainian air drive additionally reported destroying eight of the 11 drones utilized by Russia. Grain and agricultural services had been additionally focused within the Mykolaiv area.
Sumy borders Russia’s Kursk area, the place Ukraine has been conducting a navy incursion for nearly a month.
Progress has slowed in latest days, however Ukraine final week claimed it had taken management of 1,294 sq. kilometers (500 sq. miles) of territory, together with 100 settlements. It additionally stated almost 600 Russian troopers had been captured.
In the meantime, Russian troops are quickly advancing towards a key metropolis in Ukraine’s japanese Donetsk area, which has been the goal of Moscow’s floor offensive for months.
Pokrovsk performs a vital position as a logistical hub for the Ukrainian Armed Forcesas a result of there is a vital prepare station and the town is situated on the crossroads of a number of essential roads.
Ukraine’s Supreme Commander-in-Chief, Common Oleksandr Syrskyi, described the scenario within the space the place Russia carried out the principle strike as “troublesome”, however added that each one mandatory selections “are being taken directly”.
The most recent Ukrainian assaults on Russian vitality services additionally got here a day after a Russian-led bomb assault on a playground in Kharkiv a 14 yr outdated lady murdered.
An analogous assault on a residential constructing within the northeastern Ukrainian metropolis additionally killed six different individuals.
It additionally follows the Russian assault on the Ukrainian vitality grid with a huge wave of lethal drone and missile assaults final week – killing at the least 9 individuals in two days.
Shortly after Russia launched a full-scale invasion in February 2022, the nation started finishing up airstrikes on Ukraine’s vitality system.
Fires at Russian energy vegetation after drone assaults in Ukraine
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