Regional governors in western Russia reported that overnight, Ukrainian drone strikes have caused at least three fatalities and injured two others in a  at an oil refinery in central Russia.
Oleg Melnichenko, the governor of the area, posted a fatal shooting and two injuries to a nearby business on Telegram on Saturday.
According to Governor Vyacheslav Fedorishchev, the elderly man’s death occurred in a house in the Samara region that caught fire as a result of falling drone debris.
According to acting Rostov Governor Yury Slyusar, a guard was killed in the Rostov region when a drone attacked and a fire broke out in one of the facility’s buildings. Slyusar posted on Telegram that “the military resisted a massive air attack during the night,” destroying drones over seven districts.
Meanwhile, Ukraine’s military reported that on Saturday, it reportedly ignited a fire on its territory when it struck Russia’s Ryazan oil refinery.
The Unmanned Systems Forces also claimed to have struck the Voronezh region’s Annanefteprodukt oil storage facility in a statement posted on Telegram. Although the statement did not specify how the facilities were attacked, Ukraine’s military is trained in long-range strikes as well.
Separately, Ukraine’s SBU intelligence agency reported that its drones had targeted Primorsko-Akhtarsk military airfield, which has been a site for long-range drone launches at Ukrainian targets.
The SBU claimed to have also targeted a factory in Penza, which it claimed supplies electronics to Russia’s military-industrial complex.
Ukraine had no idea what Russia’s vast long-range strike capability would be when it first launched its full-scale invasion in 2022. However, it has since developed a fleet of long-range kamikaze drones capable of carrying dangerous missiles for many hundreds of kilometers (miles).
338 Ukrainian drones were downed overnight, according to the Russian Defense Ministry’s daily report.
Governor Serhiy Lysak wrote on Telegram that overnight Russian drone attacks in the central Dnipropetrovsk region of Ukraine also left three people injured. He continued, noting that several structures, homes, and automobiles had been damaged.
The Donetsk region’s Oleksandro-Kalynove village was taken on Saturday by Russia’s Defense Ministry’s forces. After three and a half years of the grinding conflict, Russian forces now have control over almost 20% of Ukraine’s east and south.
Kyiv, however, refutes reports of Russian activity in the Dnipropetrovsk region.
Osama Bin Javaid, a journalist from Moscow, reported on how the situation there hasn’t changed despite previous indications of a ceasefire.
It appears that diplomacy will be a viable option as the conflict escalates, he said, adding that Steve Witkofff, the US’s Middle East envoy, is scheduled to meet with Russian officials soon to discuss a truce.
In response to comments made by former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev about the potential for war between nuclear-armed adversaries, US President Donald Trump declared on Friday that he had given orders for the deployment of two nuclear submarines in “the appropriate regions.”
Although the US has been trying to reach a truce, most of the time, Kyiv and Moscow have been prisoners-free.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the president of Ukraine, reiterated his call for a meeting between the two leaders on Friday, saying only Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia, could bring the war to an end.
Ucraina urges leaders to engage in conversations rather than technical-level exchanges. This has been suggested by the US. He claimed on X that Ukraine has backed it.
He continued, “Russia’s readiness is what is needed.”
Putin, who has consistently rejected demands for a ceasefire in the more than three-year conflict, stated on Friday that he wanted peace but that his demands for the end of Moscow’s military offensive were “unchangeable.”
Source: Aljazeera
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