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At least 11 people were killed and 30 wounded, including five children, in overnight Russian missile and drone attacks on Ukraine’s eastern city of Dobropillia, Ukraine’s Interior Ministry said on Saturday. Another three civilians were killed in a drone attack on the Kharkiv region in the northeast. Follow our liveblog for all the latest developments.
Where is Dobropillia?
The city of Dobropillia, which was home to about 28,000 people before the war, is located in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine. It’s just 22 kilometres from the front line north of the key hub of Pokrovsk, which Russian troops have been attacking for weeks.
Three more civilians killed in drone strike in Kharkiv, Kyiv says
Three civilians were killed and seven more wounded in a Russian drone attack on Kharkiv region in the country’s northeast, Ukraine Interior Ministry said.
Russia’s Kirishi refinery hit by debris during Ukrainian drone attack
A tank at Russia’s Kirishi oil refinery, one of the country’s largest, was damaged by falling debris during a major Ukrainian drone attack, the governor of the northwestern Leningrad region said on Saturday.
Surgutneftegaz’s Kirishinefteorgsintez (KINEF) refinery is one of the top two refineries in Russia. It refines about 17.7 million tons per year (355,000 barrels per day) of Russian crude, or 6.4 percent of the country’s total, according to industry sources.
“Air defences shot down one drone on approach, the other was destroyed over the territory of the enterprise,” Alexander Drozdenko, governor of the Leningrad region, said on Telegram.
“When the debris fell, the external structure of one of the tanks was damaged,” he said.
No one was injured, he said.
At least 11 killed, 30 wounded in Russian missile strike on east Ukraine, Kyiv says
At least 11 people were killed and 30 wounded, including five children, in overnight Russian missile and drone attacks on Ukraine’s eastern city of Dobropillia, Ukraine’s Interior Ministry said on Saturday.
The ministry said Russian forces attacked the city with ballistic missiles, multiple rockets and drones, damaging multi-storey buildings and cars.
- Ukraine‘s energy minister says the country’s energy and gas infrastructure was “under massive missile and drone shelling” from Russia on Friday.
- Ukraine used French Mirage jets for first time to repel Russian attack, Kyiv says.
(FRANCE 24 with AFP, AP and Reuters)
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