A Russian overnight missile and drone attack on Ukrainian gas production facilities killed five people on Tuesday. Serhiy Koretskyi, CEO of Ukraine’s state energy company Naftogaz, said Russian forces struck gas production facilities in the Poltava and Kharkiv regions.
He said three employees and two emergency service rescuers were killed, while 37 people were wounded. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy condemned the attacks.
Meanwhile, Ukraine attacked one of Russia’s biggest oil refineries today. Governor Alexander Drozdenko said the strike caused a fire in an industrial area in the town of Kirishi, in the Leningrad region.
He said the fire was contained, and firefighting operations were nearing completion. Russia’s Defence Ministry said its air defence systems shot down 289 Ukrainian drones across different regions overnight.