The Slavyansk oil refinery in Russia’s Krasnodar region caught fire on Sunday after a Ukrainian drone attack. One person died of a suspected heart attack, local officials said. Videos online showed explosions, fires and the sounds of drones approaching the scene. Separately, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said: Three drones intercepted near Russian capital No damage or injuries were reported, but the claim could not be independently verified.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy praised the new “long-range capabilities” of the Ukrainian military. said in a statement posted Saturday night. “What our own drones can do is a true long-range capability for Ukraine. From now on, Ukraine will always have strike forces in the skies,” he said on social media.
Zelenskiy’s comments continued. Ukrainian drones attacked two Rosneft oil refineries in Russia’s Samara region, setting one of them on fire on Saturday.said the region’s governor. Dmitry Azarov said on Telegram that the Syzran refinery in the Volga region caught fire. Officials also confirmed an attack on the Novokbyshev refinery. There have been a number of other attacks over the past week that have caused significant damage to Russian refineries.
Russia accuses Ukraine of trying to use ‘terrorist activities’ to interfere in presidential election Former President Dmitry Medvedev also denounced the scattered protesters who set fires at polling stations and poured dye into ballot boxes as “traitors”. Ukrainian drones dropped explosives near polling stations in annexed Zaporizhia region This was reported by Russian state news agency TASS. No injuries or damage were reported and Reuters could not independently verify the incident.
Attacks on Russia’s Belgorod region continued, with the Russian Ministry of Defense claiming that its air defense forces had shot down 15 rockets. Regional governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said on the messaging app Telegram that a man and a woman were killed in Belgorod region on Saturday, and another person was killed by Ukrainian military shelling in the Russian city of Greyvoron. Authorities closed schools and shopping centers after fresh shelling on Saturday.
A Ukrainian drone crashes into a car in the village of Grotovo, injuring five people. It is 2 kilometers (1.25 miles) from the Ukrainian border, Gladkov said. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told state media that President Vladimir Putin is “constantly briefed” by military leaders about the situation on the border. President Putin is almost certain of his victory in the election as the opposition has been suppressed.
The Russian Ministry of Defense announced on Saturday that a Ukrainian “reconnaissance group” attempted to invade from Ukraine’s Sumy region.. This followed an armed incursion in Belgorod and Kursk regions on Tuesday claimed by Kremlin opposition Russian forces based in Ukraine. Russia’s Ministry of Defense claimed that security forces killed 30 militants. By contrast, the Russian Volunteer Army, one of the groups that claimed to have crossed the border on Tuesday, released a video saying it had captured 25 Russian soldiers.
Five Russian soldiers are injured when resistance forces detonate an explosion near a polling station in Russian-occupied Skadovsk, Kherson Oblast.Ukrainian National Resistance Center Said. The explosion prompted the Russian government in Skadovsk to suspend voting at polling stations and allow voting only in residential areas, the center said.
In Russia, there were 11 attempted arson attacks on polling stations and 19 incidents where ballot boxes were defaced with greenery or paint. Nexstar reported. Russian authorities have proposed eight years in prison for those involved.
Death toll rises to 21 in Russian attack on civilian infrastructure in Odessa After the injured paramedic died in hospital. A ballistic missile attack on Friday blew up homes in the southern city, followed by a second missile targeting first responders, officials said. It was Moscow’s deadliest attack in recent weeks and caused British Defense Secretary Grant Shapps to abandon his visit, citing the Russian missile threat. Odesa Deputy Mayor Svitlana Bedrekha said on Saturday that more than 50 people remained hospitalized, according to Ukrainian state media.
Russian artillery fire kills 51-year-old man and wounded another in Donetsk regionsaid regional governor Vadim Filashkin. The Russian military shelled Donetsk oblast about 11,000 times this week, Filashkin said.
The number of Russian men with disabilities between the ages of 31 and 59 shows a record increasesaid the British Ministry of Defense at its daily information briefing. The UK Ministry of Defense said: “The increase in the number of disabled men is most likely due to an increase in the number of wounded and sick military personnel.” “This is almost certainly the case. The majority of the more than 355,000 casualties suffered by the Russian military as a result of the Ukraine conflict were wounded.”
