Ukrainian attack sparks blaze at Russian oil depot as countries trade strikes | Russia
One night, the Ukrainian drone attack fired a violent fire while trading at the end of one of the most deadly weeks of Ukraine in the last months of Ukraine in recent months.
Regional Governor Veniamin Kondratyev said that more than 120 firefighters are trying to extinguish the fire, because an emergency authorities reported that a fuel tank with a capacity of 2,000 cubic meters (70,000 feet cubes) burned.
Drone Wreckage hit the “oil tank that caused fire” in Telegram messaging application. Soci, which hosts the 2014 Olympic Winter Games, is about 400 km from the Ukrainian border.
Video clips on social media showed large black smoke columns spilled from the facility.
The Russian Civil Aviation Authority temporarily stopped flights at Sochi Airport, as Ukrainian President Volodymyr announced new plans for the prisoner of Zelenskyy.
Kiev repeatedly beat the infrastructure he saw as the key to Moscow’s war efforts in Russia, but the attacks on Sochi were relatively rare.
The strike hit a settlement in Southern Ukraine, Mykolaiv, according to state emergency services that injured at least seven people. Nearby Kherson officials said Russia has also bombed an important bridge and caused significant damage.
In the Voronezh region of Russia, the authorities said four people were injured in a separate Ukrainian drone strike.
As Moscow rejected the repeated calls of US President Donald Trump for the ceasefire, a Russian drone and missile attack on Kiev on Thursday killed 31 people, including five children, and was injured in one of the worst one -day transitions in a few months.
EU Foreign Policy Chief Kaja Kallas described the attack as “immoral ve and published a picture of Bloc’s flag on half a pole.
Zelenskyy addresses more air defense systems to reject the Russian rise to the allies.
On Friday, Germany said that in addition to the three Patriot systems that have been delivered to Ukraine since the beginning of the full -scale invasion of Russia in February 2022, two US -made Patriot launcher will start delivering.
Trump gave Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday, as the attacks continued unabated, a shorter delivery date of August 8 for peace efforts. The US leader threatened new economic sanctions if progress was not made – a measure requested by Kiev and supported by EU forces.
Zelenskyy said on Sunday.
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Zelenskyy continued a new meeting preparations ”.
This year, three of the three rounds of Ukraine-Russian negotiations resulted in prisoner exchanges, but did not give any breakthrough to end the war.
The Russian government did not comment immediately.
Ukraine said on Sunday, Russia, Russia against Ukraine against Ukraine and 76 drones and seven missiles said. He said he had destroyed 60 drones and a missile, but 16 other and six missiles hit targets in eight places.
At the beginning of the war, the Mykolaiv region often faced Russian artillery strikes and air strikes. Even after the Russian forces were pushed back in the late 2022, drones and missiles remained a constant danger.
The Russian Defense Ministry said that the air units seized 93 Ukrainian drones, including the Krasnodar region and 60 Black Sea one night.
Ukrainian officials said that at the weekend, other key areas for Russia’s energy and defense sectors are aiming to retaliate for the latest deadly strikes in Ukraine cities.
The week also brought political turbulence for Kiev, pushing the national protests throughout the country to bring back the independence of Ukraine’s anti -corruption agencies.
During the weekend, a Ukrainian deputy and other officials were arrested after a comprehensive bribery plan due to the purchase of drones and other weapons systems of these agencies.
Zelenskyy, who committed “zero tolerance için for corruption, announced the arrests in X. It is believed that the program increases prices up to one third in state contracts with suppliers.
A hot draft law, which supported the deputies’ struggle against the call card of Zelenskyy against the call card of Zelenskyy in July, supported the Anti -National Anti -National Anti -Corruption Office and Sapo, a specialized prosecutor of Anti -Corruption.
The changes would be under the control of the general prosecutor of Zelenskyy’s general prosecutor, EU allies, triggering a concern and popular rebellion.
The activists in Kiev, who made street protests, applauded the passage of a new law that canceled measures, with what a demonstrator called the victory for the “values defended by our soldiers on the front”.
Ukraine was given the status of an EU membership candidate in 2022 and is seen as an integral part of the fight against corruption.
Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.
