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The air alert applied to the regions of Kharkiv, Poltava, Sumy and Dnipro in the east of the country. No further information was initially available.
A few hours earlier, the Ukrainian military had carried out drone attacks on the south of Russia. In Krasnodar, a drone attack caused a fire at an oil refinery. According to the Defense Ministry in Moscow, at least eight drones were shot down over the southern Russian city of Belgorod. At least one person died when a drone hit Belgorod, and eleven others were injured, according to media reports. The information could not be independently verified.
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Flames extinguished in refinery
The flames at the refinery in the Krasnodar region were extinguished after a major fire department operation and one person suffered a fatal heart attack in the impact, the Russian state news agency Tass reported on Sunday. The refinery, which only went into operation in 2013, processes around four million cubic meters of oil annually, making it the 30th largest Russian oil processing company.
Ukraine has been fending off a large-scale Russian invasion for over two years and is now increasingly bringing the war back to Russia with combat drones. Recently, Russian oil refineries have increasingly been targeted. The refinery in Syzran in the Volga region of Samara was only hit on Saturday night. According to official information, the fire could only be extinguished on Sunday morning and caused serious damage.
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Russia reported shooting down 35 drones
Meanwhile, the Russian Defense Ministry reported the downing of 35 drones. In addition to the Krasnodar region, unmanned aerial vehicles were also intercepted over the Moscow area and the Belgorod, Yaroslavl, Kaluga, Kursk, Oryol and Rostov regions. Moscow’s Domodedovo, Vnukovo and Zhukovsky airports restricted flight movements for security reasons. The anti-aircraft defense also fired several rockets over Belgorod, which is near the border.
There was initially no official confirmation of the report about the alleged occupation of an administrative building by Russian paramilitaries fighting on the side of Kiev. The so-called Siberian battalion claimed the occupation of the building in the border town of Gorkovsky in the Belgorod region.
Ukrainian drones target polling station in Zaporizhia
In addition, according to Russian information, Ukraine used drones to attack a polling station in the Russian-occupied part of the Ukrainian Zaporizhzhia region early on Sunday morning. The municipal cultural center in the small town of Kamyanka-Dniprovska caught fire in the attack, wrote Russian politician Vladimir Rogov, chairman of the “We are with Russia” movement, on his Telegram channel.
On the other hand, Russia once again attacked Ukraine during the night. According to its own information, the Ukrainian air defense was able to intercept 14 of the 16 drones, but probably none of the 7 missiles. According to official information, two farms were damaged in the Odessa region and a residential building in Chernihiv. In the Donetsk region, another Russian rocket attack on Myrnohrod injured an 86-year-old woman.
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