Russian attacks across Ukraine killed at least nine people overnight and wounded dozens, authorities said yesterday, after Kyiv warned that Moscow had received more ballistic missiles from North Korea.
The overnight attacks spanned Kyiv, Zaporizhzhia and Dnipropetrovsk, regional authorities said.
Russia’s defence ministry said its forces “delivered a group strike with high-precision ground-based weapons, hitting military-industrial enterprises and transport-logistics centres in the cities of Kyiv and Zaporizhzhia”.
Zelensky warns Moscow is receiving more ballistic missiles, troops from ally North Korea
In Zaporizhzhia, Ivan Fedorov, head of the regional military administration, said Russian forces launched a “massive” attack using missiles and guided aerial bombs. “Six people were killed and 19 others wounded,” Fedorov wrote on Telegram, updating an earlier toll of five dead.
In the eastern Dnipropetrovsk region, Russian drone and artillery strikes on five districts killed three people and wounded five others, regional military administration head Oleksandr Ganzha said on Telegram.
In Kyiv, AFP journalists heard a series of explosions shortly after midnight after authorities issued a missile alert. Mayor Vitali Klitschko said on social media that the capital was “under ballistic missile attack”.
Ukraine’s emergency service said a warehouse caught fire and one person was wounded.
Meanwhile, the Ukrainian military said yesterday it attacked an oil refinery in the Russian city of Orsk, the second-largest city in the Orenburg region and an important industrial hub, reports Reuters.
In a statement on Telegram, the Ukrainian military said it had targeted the Orsknefteorgsintez oil refinery, which has an annual crude oil capacity of 6 million tons. “Fire was recorded. Damages are being ascertained,” it said. The Orsk refinery produces gasoline, diesel and aviation fuel, fuel oil, bitumen, and other petroleum products.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned -- without providing evidence -- that Moscow was receiving more ballistic projectiles and troops from its ally Pyongyang. Russia has turned to North Korea for support throughout its four-and-a-half-year invasion.
Earlier in the war, Pyongyang dispatched thousands of troops to help Russia fight back a Ukrainian counterattack into its western Kursk region.
