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Russia said it launched a sweeping attack on Ukraine that killed one person and injured at least 24, damaging infrastructure and residential buildings, with Kyiv reporting it struck two of its rival’s oil refineries as the war that began in February 2022 showed no signs of slowing down.
Three children were among the at least two dozen wounded in the southeastern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia, Ivan Fedorov, its regional governor, said on Saturday.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reported impacts on 14 regions by the attack, which used more than 500 drones and 45 missiles.
Diplomatic efforts to end Russia’s full-scale invasion have so far yielded little, even after U.S. President Donald Trump met separately with Russian and Ukrainian leaders earlier this month.
On Friday, Zelenskyy brought up Trump’s self-imposed deadline for deciding on new measures against Russia if President Vladimir Putin fails to commit to a one-on-one meeting with the Ukrainian leader.
“Two weeks will be on Monday. And we will remind everybody,” he said.
Russia has said there is no agenda for a potential summit between Putin and Zelenskyy.
“It is absolutely clear that Moscow used the time meant for preparing a leaders-level meeting to organize new massive attacks,” Zelenskyy said on Saturday, calling for sanctions on Russian banking and energy sectors.
The attack on Zaporizhzhia cut power to 25,000 residents, Fedorov said. The local energy facility said the attack damaged its equipment and that repairs were underway.
Ukrainian state-owned railway Ukrzaliznytsia said it had repaired the damage to its infrastructure in the Kyiv region.
Also on Saturday, the Ukrainian military said it had struck Russian oil refineries in Krasnodar and Syzran overnight.
Russia launched a major air attack on Kyiv that included a rare strike on the city centre, killing more than 20 people and wounding dozens more, according to authorities.
Kyiv’s military recorded multiple explosions and a fire at the Krasnodar refinery in Russia’s south. It produces three million tonnes of light petroleum products annually.
Russian authorities in Krasnodar said falling drone debris damaged one of the refinery’s units and that a fire had broken out over an area measuring 300 square metres. That fire was later extinguished, authorities said.
There were no casualties, and employees were evacuated, authorities wrote on the Telegram messaging service.
Russia’s Defence Ministry said it had downed 11 Ukrainian drones over the Krasnodar region overnight.
There was also a fire in the Syzran oil refinery area in Russia’s Samara region, which had a processing capacity of 8.5 million tonnes per year before August, the Ukrainian military said.
Samara’s regional governor confirmed an attempt overnight to attack an industrial enterprise but gave no further details.