Russia-Ukraine war live: Ukrainian drone attack triggers fire in Rostov oil depot | Russia

Drone attacks another Russian oil reservoir

Rescue workers have recovered another body from the rubble of the hotel Kryvyi Rih which was hit by a rocket attack on Tuesday, the Ukrainian State Emergency Service said on Telegram.

A total of four people were killed and five injured in the attack.

The Kharkiv Oblast There will be power outages in Ukraine today after some energy facilities were shelled, Kharkiv Energy said on Telegram.

In Kharkiv Oblast, hourly shutdown plans and emergency shutdown plans are being applied simultaneously, which could lead to an extension of the duration of the outages, the utility company warned.

Good morning and welcome to our blog about developments in the Russia-Ukraine war.

A Ukrainian Drone attack caused a fire in an oil depot in the Kamensky district of the southern Russian Rostov regionthe governor said on Wednesday, confirming media reports that several tanks were on fire.

“There are no injuries,” said Governor Vasily Golubev via the messenger service Telegram. “The fire brigade is extinguishing the fire.”

Russian air defense units destroyed four drones over the region overnight, the Russian Defense Ministry said, but did not mention an attack on the depot.

Reuters reported that the Telegram channel Baza, which is close to Russian intelligence, had previously reported that three tanks at the Kamensky oil depot were on fire after two drones fell into the area.

Videos posted on Russian social media apparently showed large tanks ablaze at night. Reuters was able to attribute one of the videos to the Kamensky district of Rostov. There was initially no comment from Ukraine.

The attack took place while tanks were still burning at another oil depot in the Rostov district of Proletarsk, about 10 days after a Ukrainian attackit was said in Russian Telegram channels.

Further developments:

• Russia said on Wednesday that it wanted to International Atomic Energy Agency to take a “more objective and clear” stance on nuclear safety, a day after the agency's head visited Russia's Kursk nuclear power plant, near which Ukraine invaded the country. IAEA chief Rafael Grossi said he inspected damage from a drone strike that Russia blamed on Ukraine, but did not say who was responsible.

• The First Lady of Ukraine wants the children of her country to see themselves not as a generation that has to endure a grueling war, but rather as “a generation of winners“.
  On the sidelines of a day in a rehabilitation camp for Ukrainian children in the relatively safe western city of Uzhhorod, Olena Zelenska said on Tuesday that working with the next generation was both a moral obligation and a “strategic priority” for Ukraine’s future.

• Helping Ukraine in its war against Russia is likely to be high on the new British Prime Minister’s agenda. Keir Starmermeets the German Chancellor, Olaf Scholzin Berlin.

• Volodymyr Zelensky has called for more F-16 fighter jets and better training for pilots to fly these aircraft, following revelations that Western warplanes shot down Russian missiles during heavy attacks on Ukraine in recent days.

• There are reports that Ukrainian forces have attempted to enter the Russian Belgorod Region bordering Ukraine and partially occupied by Ukraine Kursk“According to the Russian Defense Ministry, the situation at the border remains difficult but under control,” the regional governor said on social media.

• Meanwhile, Ukrainian army chief Oleksandr Syrsky said his forces had new gains in Kursk and controlled 100 towns and villages over 1,294 square kilometers (almost 500 square miles). He claimed that Russian forces had moved about 30,000 troops because of the Kursk invasion and that Ukraine had 594 prisoners of war Luke Harding and Pjotr ​​Sauer write there.