Shelling kills 4 in Ukraine as a drone attack sparks fire at an oil depot in Russia
LA TimesA photo taken from video released by the Russian Defense Ministry on Friday purports to show Russian soldiers firing a howitzer at Ukrainian troops at an undisclosed location in Ukraine. Russian shelling of Ukraine killed four people on Saturday, officials said, as the two countries exchanged drone attacks, one of which set ablaze a Russian oil depot. Two people died in Ukraine’s partly occupied Kherson region and two were wounded in the attack close to the regional capital, said Gov. In addition to two drones being intercepted over the Rostov region, Russian air defense systems overnight destroyed two drones over the country’s western Kursk and Belgorod regions, the Russian Ministry of Defense said. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Russian state television: “We have enough capacity to contain these missiles but the potential victims are the capitals of these countries.” Russia’s deputy foreign minister, Sergei Ryabkov, said earlier that the Kremlin had expected “actions of the United States and its satellites to create additional missile threats to Russia” and had already begun developing “countermeasures.” Associated Press writer Kullab reported from Kyiv, Morton from London.