Russia claims Ukraine killed 11 people (representational image)
Russian authorities said that 11 people, including four children, were killed by Ukraine in an overnight attack on a holiday camp in the Russian-controlled part of the Ukrainian Zaporizhya region, and accused Kiev, on Saturday, of deliberately attacking civilians.Ukraine did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Moscow said Ukraine launched more than 300 drones, killing at least two people in a border area and hitting as far as the city of Yekaterinburg in the Ural Mountains.Ukraine says Russian oil refinery and oil platform were bombedUkraine said on Saturday that its drones had struck a Russian oil platform in the Caspian Sea and an oil refinery in Siberia, while Kiev and Moscow said they had bombed ships carrying military cargo.
The energy targets are located more than 700 kilometers and 2,000 kilometers from Ukrainian territory, highlighting the growing extent of Kiev’s campaign to use long-range drones to undermine the Russian war effort and pressure the Kremlin to make peace.Ukraine struck the Vilanovsky oil platform of the Russian company Lukoil. The platform is part of Russia’s largest Caspian Sea oil field.In the Black Sea, the Russian Defense Ministry said that its drones hit a cargo tanker that was transporting military cargo for the Ukrainian army. Reuters
