Russia and Ukraine have kept up strikes on each other's energy facilities in recent days, with Russia reporting fresh attacks on Ukrainian military-industrial and energy sites, while Ukraine said Thursday it has hit five major Russian refineries since Oct. 30.
The Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement Thursday that its forces used ground-based high-precision weapons and long-range attack drones to hit plants producing and assembling drones in the city of Kiev and the surrounding area.
The same strikes, according to the ministry, hit a plant in Kiev Oblast that makes solid rocket fuel components for operational-tactical missiles and an industrial facility producing solid-fuel boosters for drones.
Russian forces also hit two electrical substations in the city of Zhytomyr, as well as a dry cargo ship bound for the port of Odesa that was carrying supplies for the Ukrainian military.
Russian air defense forces intercepted and destroyed 71 Ukrainian fixed-wing drones over several regions inside Russia overnight, the ministry added. The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said in a social media post Thursday that Ukrainian forces have carried out long-range strikes on five major Russian oil refineries since Oct. 30 -- the Omsk, Kirishi, Ryazan, Nizhny Novgorod and Yaroslavl plants. According to the General Staff, the Omsk refinery caught fire after Wednesday's attack.
Ukrainian forces attacked the Kirishi refinery on Monday and the Saratov refinery on Saturday, damaging the primary refining units at both, and also struck some smaller refineries.
Russia, Ukraine continue strikes on each other's energy facilities
