Kyiv strikes oil terminal in Crimea– DW– 10/07/2024

The Ukrainian Air Force stated Monday that it had actually rejected 32 Russian- introduced drones and 2 hypersonic Kinzhal rockets.

One of the Kinzhal rockets struck the Starokostyantyniv airfield in Ukraine’s Khmelnytskyi area.

All of the strikes took place over night.

Serhiy Popko, head of Kyiv’s city armed forces management, stated there was no significant damages or casualties after particles boiled down in the Ukrainian resources.

Ukraine stated Monday it had actually struck an oil center over night in Crimea.

Kyiv has actually raised the variety of strikes targeting Russia’s power industry in current months intending to strike profits utilized by Moscow to money its intrusion.

“At night, a successful strike was carried out on the enemy’s offshore oil terminal in temporarily occupied Feodosia, Crimea,” the Ukrainian armed force stated in a blog post on social media sites.

Russian- mounted authorities in Crimea, the Ukrainian peninsula inhabited by Russia considering that 2014, stated a fire had actually burst out at an oil depot in the Black Sea port community, including that there were no casualties.

The Russian Defense Ministry at the same time stated that 12 Ukrainian assault drones had actually been downed over the peninsula overnight, of a total amount of 21 released by Kyiv versus Russia.

“The Feodosia terminal is the largest in Crimea in terms of transshipment of oil products, which were used, among other things, to meet the needs of the Russian occupation army,” the Ukrainian armed force stated.

js/ab (AFP, Reuters, AP, dpa)