Drive-by footage reveals a fireplace at an oil depot in Feodosia, Crimea, on the day the Ukrainian army stated the vitality facility was attacked in the course of the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine, October 7, 2024. . Photograph credit score: Reuters
kyiv stated on Monday (October 7, 2024) that its forces had attacked a big oil terminal in a single day on the occupied Crimean peninsula, whereas Moscow claimed the seize of one other village in japanese Ukraine.
kyiv has intensified assaults on the Russian vitality sector in current months with the goal of lowering the income utilized by Moscow to finance its invasion, which is now in its third 12 months.
“At evening, a profitable assault was carried out on the enemy offshore oil terminal in quickly occupied Feodosia, Crimea,” the Ukrainian army stated in a social media put up.
Russian-installed authorities in Crimea stated a fireplace had damaged out at an oil facility within the Black Sea port metropolis of about 70,000 folks and there have been no casualties.
The Protection Ministry stated 12 Ukrainian assault drones had been shot down over the peninsula in a single day, out of a complete of 21 deployed by kyiv in opposition to Russian targets.
“The Feodosia terminal is the biggest in Crimea when it comes to transshipment of oil merchandise, which have been used, amongst different issues, to fulfill the wants of the Russian occupation military,” the Ukrainian army stated, vowing to proceed such assaults.
Ukraine insists the assaults are simply retaliation for Russian assaults by itself vitality infrastructure which have plunged hundreds of thousands of individuals into darkness.
In the meantime, Russia’s Protection Ministry claimed the seize of a village in japanese Ukraine, close to the strategically essential metropolis of Pokrovsk.
Missiles goal Kyiv
In a briefing, the Protection Ministry stated it captured the village of Grodivka, a settlement within the Donetsk area close to Pokrovsk, as Russian troops approached a key logistics middle.
The settlement, with an estimated pre-war inhabitants of round 2,000, is the newest in a collection of cities within the Donetsk area which have fallen to Russian forces, as they advance in direction of Pokrovsk.
Final week, Ukraine’s army stated it had withdrawn from the mining city of Vugledar, additionally within the Donetsk area, handing Russia certainly one of its most important territorial positive factors in weeks.
In a wave of separate assaults on Monday, Ukrainian authorities stated three civilians had been killed in Russian strikes in a single day: two brothers aged 35 and 38 within the japanese area of Sumy and a 61-year-old girl within the southern area of Kherson. .
The governor of Kherson later stated {that a} Russian assault on the town had injured 19 folks and broken an academic facility and several other residential buildings have been broken.
And within the Zaporizhzhia area, which Russia claimed to have annexed together with three different Ukrainian areas in 2022, three folks have been injured after Russian assaults on infrastructure services, native authorities stated.
Russian forces additionally launched a number of missiles and dozens of drones in a single day at Ukraine, the air pressure in kyiv stated, with two missiles shot down over the capital and the third exploding close to an airfield within the central Khmelnytsky area.
Kyiv authorities stated particles from the fallen missiles had landed close to a kindergarten.
Russian media firm VGTRK, which operates the nation’s essential state tv channels, stated on Monday it had been the goal of an “unprecedented” hacker assault, claimed by kyiv.
“Regardless of makes an attempt to disrupt the printed of federal tv channels and the holding’s radio stations, every part is functioning usually, there is no such thing as a vital risk,” state media reported.
Revealed – October 8, 2024 01:03 am IST
