Russia Bombards Ukrainian City Hours After White House Summit

KYIV, 19 Aug (Reuters) – Russia, the headquarters of the city of Ukraine Kremenchuk hit overnight, and the local mayor’s Russian President Vladimir Putin did not want peace in an attack on the city left a thick smoke column on the city.

According to the Ukraine Air Force, the bombardment in that city and other places in Ukraine were the largest in Russia in August. Donald Trump’s US President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Washington and his meeting with European leaders on Monday to end the US President Russia’s war in Ukraine.

Ukraine said that Moscow started 270 drones and 10 missiles. Despite the fact that the drones have dropped 230, 16 sites were shot, he said.

Ukraine Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said, “While hard work continues for the progress of peace in Washington DC, DC … Moscow continued to make the opposite of peace: more strikes and destruction.”

The Governor of Poltava, where Kremenchuk is located, said that there was no loss, but that about 1,500 households were left without electricity.

The Ministry of Energy said the energy facilities were shot in the attack and caused damage and a major fire.

The Russian Defense Ministry said that their forces hit an oil refinery supplying the Ukrainian army. Kremenchuk is home to a great refinery, but the ministry did not say whether this was the hit.

Russian officials also said that a Ukrainian drone attack caused fires at an oil refinery overnight and a hospital roof in the Volgograd region.

Both sides aim at infrastructure, including oil facilities in each other’s region.

Kremenchuk Mayor Vitalii Maletskyi said, “Once again, the world saw Putin did not want peace – he wants to destroy Ukraine,” he said.

A photo published by the Mayor showed a wide, dark smoke column following upwards and in the sky.

Maletskyi said that the scores shook the city of the explosions and aim for the energy and transportation infrastructure. Local inhabitants warned from the Russian missiles in the city not to approach or touch the exploded cluster ammunition.

On Tuesday morning, a drone attack in Russia’s Chernihiv region of Ukraine damaged the infrastructure. Local energy official said that more than 30,000 households have lost power.

(Reporting by Melbourne, Anastasiia Malanko and Yuliia Dysa by Tom Houge, Kim Coghill and Frances Kerry)