A Ukrainian drone attack caused a fire at another Russian oil terminal overnight, local officials in Russia鈥檚 Krasnodar region said Saturday, in what appeared to be the latest .
Authorities in the city of , injuring two people. Russia鈥檚 Astra news outlet said Ukrainian drones struck the Sheskharis oil terminal and depot, the terminus for Russian state-controlled pipeline company Transneft鈥檚 main oil pipelines in the region. Images posted by Astra appeared to show smoke rising above the oil terminal, but they could not be verified.
On Saturday afternoon, Ukraine’s General Staff said its forces had struck the Sheskharis oil terminal overnight.
鈥淭he facility provides shipment of oil and oil products for export and is involved in meeting the needs of the Russian army,鈥� the General Staff wrote on Telegram, adding that Ukrainian forces had also hit a tanker in the Black Sea belonging to Russia鈥檚 so-called 鈥渟hadow fleet.鈥�
Ukraine has expanded its mid- and long-range strike capabilities, deploying that it has developed domestically to battle . Attacks on Russian oil assets that play a key part in funding the invasion have become almost daily occurrences.
Meanwhile, the death toll from a Ukrainian drone strike overnight into Friday on a college dormitory building in Starobilsk, a city in Ukraine鈥檚 Russia-occupied Luhansk region, rose to 18, the press service of Russia’s Ministry of Emergency Situations said. According to the ministry, 60 people were wounded in the attack.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday denounced the attack on the dormitory as a 鈥渃rime鈥� and ordered the military to submit its proposals for retaliation. He said there were no military or law enforcement facilities near the college.
At a U.N. Security Council emergency meeting on the strike, held at the request of Russia, Ukrainian Ambassador Andrii Melnyk denied his Russian counterpart鈥檚 accusations of war crimes, calling them a 鈥減ure propaganda show鈥� and asserting that the May 22 operations 鈥渆xclusively targeted the Russian war machine.鈥�
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