October 7, 2024
Russia fires dozens of drones and two hypersonic missiles
The Ukrainian Air Force said Monday that it had shot down 32 Russian-launched drones and two hypersonic Kinzhal missiles.
One of the Kinzhal missiles hit the Starokostyantyniv airfield in Ukraine’s Khmelnytskyi region.
All of the strikes occurred overnight.
Serhiy Popko, head of Kyiv’s city military administration, said there was no major damage or casualties after debris came down in the Ukrainian capital.
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October 7, 2024
Crimea oil facility struck, says Ukraine
Ukraine said Monday it had struck an oil facility overnight in Crimea.
Kyiv has increased the number of strikes targeting Russia’s energy sector in recent months aiming to hit revenues used by Moscow to fund its invasion.
“At night, a successful strike was carried out on the enemy’s offshore oil terminal in temporarily occupied Feodosia, Crimea,” the Ukrainian military said in a post on social media.
Russian-installed authorities in Crimea, the Ukrainian peninsula occupied by Russia since 2014, said a fire had broken out at an oil depot in the Black Sea port town, adding that there were no casualties.
The Russian Defense Ministry meanwhile said that 12 Ukrainian attack drones had been downed over the peninsula overnight, of a total of 21 deployed by Kyiv against Russia.
“The Feodosia terminal is the largest in Crimea in terms of transshipment of oil products, which were used, among other things, to meet the needs of the Russian occupation army,” the Ukrainian military said.
js/ab (AFP, Reuters, AP, dpa)
