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Ukraine and Russia strikes hit properties and oil depot close to Black Sea


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DSNS Ukraine An emergency responder stands amid debris from a strike in Ukraine, lit up by a fire in the distance.DSNS Ukraine

Properties had been hit in a Russian missile strike on Mykolaiv (pic: State Emergency Service of Ukraine)

A Russian missile strike has destroyed properties and civilian infrastructure in Ukraine’s southern metropolis of Mykolaiv, native officers say.

No less than three civilians had been reported injured within the metropolis close to the Black Sea, which has been repeatedly shelled by Russian forces. Ukraine’s State Emergency Service posted pictures of firefighters on the scene after the missile strike.

Early on Sunday a large oil depot hearth was raging close to Russia’s Black Sea resort of Sochi – blamed by the Russian authorities on a Ukrainian drone assault. Sochi’s airport in the identical space – Adler district – suspended flights.

Krasnodar Area Governor Veniamin Kondratyev stated on Telegram that drone particles had hit a gasoline tank, and 127 firefighters had been tackling the blaze.

The drone assault was one among a number of launched by Ukraine over the weekend, concentrating on installations within the southern Russian cities of Ryazan, Penza and Voronezh. The governor of Voronezh stated 4 individuals had been injured in a single drone strike.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky referred to as for stronger worldwide sanctions on Russia this week after a lethal assault on Kyiv on Thursday killed not less than 31 individuals.

Greater than 300 drones and eight cruise missiles had been launched within the assault, Ukrainian officers stated, making the assault one of many deadliest on the capital since Russia launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022.

Watch: Explosion rocks Russian oil facility in Novokuybyshevsk, Russia, on Saturday