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11.01 BST
Summary of the day so far …
Drones attacked two oil refineries just 40-50
miles (65-80 km) east of Russia’s biggest oil export terminals on Wednesday,
sparking a fire at one and causing no damage to the other, according to Russian
officials. At around 2am BST a drone struck the Afipsky oil refinery in
Russia’s Krasnodar region, causing a fire which was later extinguished,
Governor Veniamin Kondratyev said. Another drone crashed into the Ilsky
refinery, which lies around 40 miles east of Novorossiisk.
Five people have been killed and 19 injured in
the shelling of a village in Russian-occupied Luhansk region, according to the
Telegram channel of Russian-installed officials there.
Serhiy Lysak, governor of Dnipropetrovsk oblast,
has reported on Telegram that an eight-year-old child has been injured in the
shelling of the village of Mezhyrich near Pavlohrad in his region.
The governor of Belgorod, a Russian region that
borders Ukraine, has claimed that four people were injured in Ukrainian
shelling on a town close to the border. Two people were hospitalised as a
result of the artillery strike on Shebekino, Vyacheslav Gladkov said, adding
that it was the third time in a week the town had been hit.
Russian security council deputy chair Dmitry
Medvedev said on Wednesday that Britain was Moscow’s “eternal enemy” and that
any British officials who facilitated the war in Ukraine could be considered
legitimate military targets. Medvedev, the hawkish long-term ally of Vladimir
Putin, was responding to British foreign secretary James Cleverly’s remark that
Ukraine had a right to project force beyond its own borders, said Britain’s
“goofy officials” should remember that Britain could be “qualified as being at
war”.
Emmanuel Macron will make a diplomatic push to
reassure central and eastern European countries that France understands that
the continent’s security environment has been permanently changed by Russia’s
invasion of Ukraine. In a speech to a security forum in the Slovakian capital,
Bratislava, on Wednesday, Macron will call for a “strategic awakening” and
highlight the work France has done to protect Nato’s eastern flank, including
posting 1,250 French troops in Romania and 300 in Estonia. He will also stress
the French role in unlocking the supply of battle tanks to Ukraine.
Russian president, Vladimir Putin, accused
Ukraine on Tuesday of seeking to “frighten” Russians after Moscow was targeted
with a large-scale drone attack for the first time in the 15-month war. He said
that Ukraine had chosen the path of attempting “to intimidate Russia, Russian
citizens [with] attacks on residential buildings” and added that the drone
attacks were “clearly a sign of terrorist activity”. Since the full-scale
invasion of Ukraine order by Putin in February 2022, the UN reports that almost
24,000 Ukrainian civilians have died.
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