Ukraine Endures Missile Barrage, Strikes Russian Refinery
Live Mint-- Ukraine sustained a heavy Russian missile barrage overnight aimed at gas infrastructure and other targets, while striking back a Russian oil refinery with drones. US warned Ukraine that attacks on Russian oil refineries were impacting global energy markets and urged Kyiv to focus on military targets. Russia’s defense ministry said in a statement that recent strikes, including the overnight barrage, had targeted energy and defense facilities and railway infrastructure in response to Kyiv’s attempts to “damage Russian energy and industrial facilities.” President Volodymyr Zelenskiy renewed his call for additional air-defense systems from Ukraine’s allies. “All that is required is for the necessary political decisions and agreements to be implemented.” Targets fired at by Kremlin troops included energy facilities in the Lviv and Ivano-Frankivsk regions in the west, and the Dnipropetrovsk region in central Ukraine, the national grid operator Ukrenergo said in statement on Facebook.