Russia Attacks Ukrainian Energy Plants Like Kyiv Refining Center | Today’s news
Overnight, Russia struck energy facilities and other sites in southern Ukraine, while Kiev forces targeted an oil refining center deep inside Russian territory.
Separately, debate over when and where new talks on ending Russia’s war in Ukraine may be scheduled, now in its fifth year, continues after US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner visited Moscow and Kiev for top-level talks last weekend.
Russia’s Defense Ministry said in a Telegram that its forces hit electricity substations in Odesa and Mykolaiv, which support port infrastructure in the regions. The logistics center in Nova Poshta was also hit in the Odesa region. In addition, rail infrastructure in western Ukraine used to transport military cargo from European countries was also targeted, Russia said.
During the overnight Russian attacks, a multi-storey apartment building, private houses, two educational institutions and infrastructure were damaged, Serhiy Lysak, head of Odesa’s military administration, said in a statement. The consequences of the attack are being assessed.
Russia has turned to “systematic attacks against civilians, trains and the infrastructure that keeps the country moving,” Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said on X.
Ukrainian tennis player Dayana Yastremska posted on Instagram on Saturday that her family’s apartment in a high-rise building in Odesa was destroyed by a Russian Kalibr guided missile.
Russia’s Defense Ministry also reported on movement in the ground war on Sunday, saying its forces were expanding the “outer control zone” in the Kharkiv region in northern Ukraine, Interfax reported.
Separately, industrial and civilian facilities were damaged in Ukraine’s drone strike on Nizhnekamsk in Russia’s Tatarstan, a major oil refining and petrochemicals center located about 900 kilometers east of Moscow, Interfax news agency reported, citing authorities in the region.
The fire broke out at one facility and is being extinguished while production continues, authorities said, without providing details. Two people were killed and 12 injured.
A fire was also reported at a facility in Slavyansk on Kuban in Russia’s Krasnodar region after the Ukrainian drone attack, Interfax reported, citing regional authorities. Officials did not identify the location that was hit.
Russia said its air defense intercepted 389 Ukrainian drones in multiple regions. According to preliminary data from the Ukrainian General Staff, Ukraine shot down 405 out of 453 Russian drones in various locations overnight.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in an interview with Germany’s DW published on Saturday that he will go to Miami for President Donald Trump’s G20 summit in mid-December if Vladimir Putin attends, saying the two leaders should meet and decide.
Zelenskyy said in Canada last week that a new meeting could be held with US envoys in New York later this month, potentially when world leaders gather for a general debate at the UN General Assembly.
Kyrylo Budanov, the head of Ukraine’s presidential office, later said a new round of trilateral talks – involving Ukraine, Russia and the US – could come in October.
A number of issues must be resolved before any trilateral meeting can take place, Kremlin foreign policy adviser Yuri Ushakov, who is accompanying Putin to the BRICS summit in New Delhi, told Russia’s Izvestia newspaper. The “territorial question” remains the key to progress, he added.
Putin insists Ukraine must give up the rest of its eastern Donetsk region as part of any deal to end the war. Ukraine has repeatedly rejected demands to hand over the region, which Russian forces have failed to capture in fighting since 2014.
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