Ukraine attacks Russian chemical plant, fuel depot | Today’s news
In the latest in a series of strikes deep into Russia, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he attacked a Russian fertilizer and chemical factory in the Tula region and an oil depot in the Yaroslavl region.
The Azot factory in Tula carries out operations critical to Russian explosives, Zelenskyy said on Sunday X. The governor of the Tula region, Dmitry Milyaev, said that the debris of the drone fell on the territory of the industrial plant in Novomoskovsk and the nature of the damage is being assessed, the Interfax news service reported.
Novomoskovsk is about 200 kilometers south of Moscow and about 660 km northeast of Kyiv.
The strikes in the Yaroslavl region northeast of Moscow hit fuel storage facilities and caused a fire, regional governor Mikhail Yevrayev said, according to Interfax. These facilities are owned by the Russian State Reserve Agency. The area is about 1000 km northeast of Kyiv.
Images on social media showed a large cloud of smoke covering the sky. Several airports temporarily restricted flights on Sunday, and road traffic between Yaroslavl and Moscow was disrupted, according to the state news agency Tass.
One person died and eight were injured in the Oryol region of western Russia after a Ukrainian drone hit a residential building, regional governor Andrey Klychkov said, according to Interfax.
Ukraine carried out the attacks “in response to Russia’s refusal to end this war,” Zelenskyy said in X. “We offered the Russian leadership all possible forms of action — and the only response was continued aggression and attempts to expand it.”
Russia’s Defense Ministry said its forces intercepted 249 Ukrainian drones overnight in several areas and in the Sea of Azov.
The Ukrainian Air Force said Russia attacked 98 drones overnight, of which 91 were shot down.
A fire broke out at the Temryuk seaport in southern Russia’s Krasnodar region on Saturday due to debris from a Ukrainian drone attack.
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