Footage taken from a transferring car exhibits a hearth at an oil depot in Feodosia, Crimea, on the day the Ukrainian navy stated the power facility was focused throughout Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine, October 7, 2024.
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Kyiv stated on Monday (October 7, 2024) its forces had struck a big oil terminal in a single day on the occupied Crimean peninsula as Moscow claimed the seize of one other village in east Ukraine.
Kyiv has ramped up strikes concentrating on Russia’s power sector in latest months aiming to dent revenues utilized by Moscow to fund its invasion, now grinding via its third yr.
“At evening, a profitable strike was carried out on the enemy’s offshore oil terminal in briefly occupied Feodosia, Crimea,” the Ukrainian navy stated in a submit on social media.
Russian-installed authorities in Crimea stated a hearth had damaged out at an oil facility within the Black Sea port city of some 70,000 individuals and that there have been no casualties.
The Defence Ministry stated that 12 Ukrainian assault drones had been downed over the peninsula in a single day, out of a complete of 21 deployed by Kyiv in opposition to Russian targets.
“The Feodosia terminal is the biggest in Crimea by way of transshipment of oil merchandise, which have been used, amongst different issues, to satisfy the wants of the Russian occupation military,” the Ukrainian navy stated, vowing to proceed such assaults.
Ukraine insists the strikes are honest retaliation for Russian assaults by itself power infrastructure which have plunged tens of millions into darkness.
Russia’s Defence Ministry in the meantime claimed the seize of a village in jap Ukraine near the strategically vital metropolis of Pokrovsk.
Missiles goal Kyiv
The Defence Ministry in a briefing stated it captured the village of Grodivka, a settlement within the Donetsk area close to Pokrovsk, as Russian troops shut in on the important thing logistics hub.
The settlement with an estimated pre-war inhabitants of round 2,000 is the most recent in a collection of cities within the Donetsk area to have fallen to Russian forces, as they push in direction of Pokrovsk.
Final week, Ukraine’s Military stated that it had withdrawn from the mining city of Vugledar additionally within the Donetsk area, handing Russia one among its most important territorial advances in weeks.
In a wave of separate assaults on Monday, Ukrainian authorities stated three civilians had been killed in in a single day Russian assaults — two brothers aged 35 and 38 within the jap area of Sumy and a 61-year-old lady within the southern Kherson area.
The governor of Kherson later stated a Russian strike in town had wounded 19 individuals and broken an academic facility and varied residential buildings have been broken.
And within the Zaporizhzhia area, which Russia claimed to have annexed alongside three different Ukrainian areas in 2022, three individuals have been wounded after Russian assaults on infrastructure amenities, native authorities stated.
Russian forces additionally launched a number of missiles and dozens of drones in a single day at Ukraine, the air power in Kyiv stated, with two missiles shot down over the capital and the third exploding close to an airfield within the central Khmelnytsky area.
Authorities in Kyiv stated particles from the downed missiles had landed close to a kindergarten.
Russian media firm VGTRK, which operates the nation’s fundamental state-run tv channels, stated earlier Monday it had been focused in a “unprecedented” hacker assault, claimed by Kyiv.
“Regardless of makes an attempt to interrupt broadcasting of federal TV channels and radio stations of the holding, all the pieces is working in regular mode, there is no such thing as a vital menace,” state media reported.
Printed – October 08, 2024 01:03 am IST
