Ukrainian attacks killed four people in the Russia-annexed Crimea peninsula, Kremlin-installed officials in the region said yesterday, one day after Moscow and Kyiv traded strikes on each other’s cities.
Ukrainian forces had hit a non-residential part of Simferopol, the peninsula’s main administrative town, killing three people and injuring seven, Russia-appointed Crimea head Sergei Aksyonov said.
One person had also been killed and three wounded when a Ukrainian drone struck a commuter train in eastern Crimea, he added.
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In the Port of Sevastopol, the local Russia-installed governor said air defense units had intercepted more than 20 Ukrainian drones.
He made no mention of casualties, but said drone debris had damaged some buildings.
The region has taken measures to tackle fuel shortages after increasing Ukrainian strikes on oil industry targets, some deep inside Russia.
US-brokered talks aimed at moving toward an end to the war have stalled as Washington remains focused on its war with Iran.
Russian shelling on Wednesday killed at least three civilians in Kramatorsk, one of Ukraine’s “fortress cities” near the front line, and eight people were injured near the city of Dnipro, local and regional officials said.
Firefighters were yesterday extinguishing a blaze in the Boryspil area outside Kyiv after an industrial facility was hit in a drone attack, with one person injured, Ukraine’s emergency service said.
In Russia’s border region of Bryansk, the acting regional governor said a Ukrainian drone had killed a crane operator.
Ukrainian attacks on Moscow’s oil industry included a strike on an oil terminal in St Petersburg on Wednesday.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said such strikes enable Ukraine “to end this war on equal footing.”
Twenty-three people were killed in attacks on Ukrainian cities on Tuesday after Moscow said it would launch “systematic” strikes in following a drone attack on a dormitory in Russian-occupied territory.
Ukraine denies attacking the dormitory.
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