Ukraine's Myla toll reaches 38 as Kirishi refinery and power grids come under fire
President Zelenskyy said 38 people were killed in Friday night's Russian strike on a warehouse west of Kyiv, with four still missing and 20 injured. The same day Moscow said it was preparing massive strikes on Ukraine's energy infrastructure, while Ukrainian forces reported hitting Russia's second-largest oil refinery at Kirishi and an airbase at Yeysk.
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The Myla warehouse becomes the year's deadliest single strike
The death toll from Friday night's Russian strike on a warehouse west of Kyiv rose to 38, President Zelenskyy said on Sunday, with four people still missing and 20 injured, two of them children. Ukrainian officials described the site in the village of Myla as an ammunition storage facility. The strike set off explosions and fires that swept through dozens of nearby homes and buildings, and emergency workers were still putting out fires and clearing explosive devices there on Sunday. It is the deadliest single attack of the war so far this year.[1]
Moscow answers with a warning on Ukraine's power system
Russia's Defence Ministry said the same day that it is preparing massive strikes on Ukraine's energy infrastructure in answer to Ukrainian drone attacks on Russian oil and gas targets. The Russian statement named Ukraine's campaign against the oil and gas sector, which Kyiv says both funds and fuels the invasion, and against a retailer Russian media call the country's Amazon. No timing was given for the announced strikes.[1]
Ukrainian forces strike Kirishi and an airbase inside Russia
Ukraine's General Staff said its forces hit the Kirishi refinery in Leningrad Oblast, which can process about 20 million tonnes of oil a year, and an airbase at Yeysk in Krasnodar Krai overnight into Sunday. It also reported destroying a storage and launch site for drones at Millerovo in Rostov Oblast. Leningrad Oblast Governor Aleksandr Drozdenko described a drone crash near the refinery that started a fire and said 62 drones were shot down over the region. Kirishi is Russia's second-largest refinery by capacity. Neither side has given a detailed account of damage to the plant's processing units.[2], [1]
