By Deutsche Welle
22 Jul 2024, 09:52 AM EDT
A drone attack launched by Ukraine overnight caused a Fire at an oil refinery in southern Russia kills one personRussian and Ukrainian authorities reported on Monday.
kyiv and Moscow have stepped up their cross-border attacks on each other, both with missiles and drones, in recent months, targeting energy infrastructure in particular.
Russian regional authorities in the Black Sea region and in the town of Tuapse in the Krasnodar region (south) explained that Falling drone debris caused a fire at a refinerywhich forced the deployment of a hundred firefighters.
On the sidelines, the governor of Belgorod, another southern Russian region, reported that a person driving a tractor was killed, shot down by a Ukrainian drone, and that his wife was injured.
A source in the Ukrainian defense sector said that They used drones related to military intelligence services and that the damaged refinery is operated by Russian state giant Rosneft.
“The extent of the damage to the military-industrial complex of the aggressor state is being verified,” the source said in a statement.
Russia shoots down 75 Ukrainian drones
According to the Russian Ministry of Defence, 75 Ukrainian drones were shot down overnight, including 47 in the southern Rostov region, one in Belgorod, two in Voronezh and Smolensk, and eight in the skies of Krasnodar.
Another 17 drones were shot down while flying over the Black Sea and the Azorean Sea.v, according to the ministry, Russia announces almost daily that it has shot down Ukrainian drones on its territory.
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