Russian authorities say Ukraine drone strike responsible for oil refinery fire; governor of Belgorod accuses Kyiv of shelling region
Twenty-four hours after the first large scale drone strike on Moscow, Russian officials in two separate southern regions have accused Ukraine of launching attacks.
The governor of Russia’s Krasnodar region said that a drone strike was likely the cause of a fire that broke out at the Afipsky oil refinery. Meanwhile, the governor of Belgorod region accused Ukraine of carrying out an artillery strike in the town of Shebekino that left at least one person injured.
, Russian citizens [with] attacks on residential buildings” and added that the drone attacks were “clearly a sign of terrorist activity.”However, he did he predict “an increase in the number of attacks”.
Neither Russia nor Ukraine committed to respect the five principles laid out by the International Atomic Energy Agency to try to safeguard Ukraine’s Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. The principles included that there should be no attacks on, or from the plant and that no heavy weapons should be housed there.
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