(Bloomberg) – Russia said that his rocket and neo -volume hit the great refinery of Oil Kremenchuk in Central Ukraine, which had previously focused on the Kremlin forces in 2022.
“Group strike with accuracy led by air and sea weapons and unmanned air vehicles” hit the Poltava facility, the Russian Ministry of Defense said in a telegram statement.
The reigning regional governor Volodymyr Kohut said that the main objectives of Russia are energy and agricultural facilities in the city, located about 300 kilometers (186 miles) southeast of Kiev.
Pictures on social media showed that the sky over Kremenchuk was valid from air bombing.
“The night was difficult,” Kohut said on Ukrainian television. “From 23:30 to 4:00 there was a massive attack.”
No one was injured, and the Ukrainian air defense shot down most of the missiles and drones, Kohut said without giving the details of the refinery state.
Explosions and debris lit fires, damaged residential buildings and vehicles after a “massive combined attack using missiles and drones”, said the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry on the X.
Russia had previously focused on the Kremenchuk refinery and the surrounding areas with a number of missile attacks in April, May and June 2022. The first strike closed the facility supplied by Ukrainian troops in the central and eastern parts of the country and damaged a large part of its infrastructure.
Also on Sunday, the Ukrainian Coordination Office for the exchange of prisoners said that Russia returned another 1200 bodies of soldiers killed in action.
As part of the agreements achieved after bilateral meetings in Istanbul, Russia said this month that it would return 6,000 bodies in Ukraine. According to Russian media reports, Moscow has returned 4,812 bodies in recent days.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenky said on Friday that the current round of prisoner stock exchanges should be completed around 20 June or 21 June. 1200 prisoners were replaced on each side.
(Update with the return of Ukrainian bodies from the ninth paragraph).
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