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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) \u2014 Two people were killed after a Russian drone attacked a minibus in the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson, local officials said Saturday, in the latest barrage of civilian areas, a hallmark of Moscow\u2019s full-scale invasion<\/a> of its neighbor.<\/p>\n

Seven people were also wounded in the attack, regional head Oleksandr Prokudin said. Hours later Russia attacked another minibus in Kherson, wounding the driver, he said.<\/p>\n

On Ukraine\u2019s Black Sea coast, a Russian strike damaged port infrastructure in the city of Odesa. No casualties were reported. <\/p>\n

Ukrainian civilians have endured relentless air assaults since Russia launched a full-scale invasion<\/a> of its neighbor more than four years ago. U.S.-brokered talks between Moscow and Kyiv over the past year have brought no respite, with Russia rejecting Ukraine\u2019s offer of a ceasefire, and in recent weeks the Iran war<\/a> has diverted international attention from Ukraine\u2019s plight.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, on the roughly 1,250-kilometer (750-mile) front line, Russia claimed Saturday it had taken control of the village of Myropillia in Ukraine\u2019s northeastern Sumy region.<\/p>\n

It was not possible to independently verify the battlefield claims, and Ukraine did not immediately comment.<\/p>\n

In Russia, local officials in the Krasnodar region said that a fire that broke out Friday following a Ukrainian strike on an oil terminal in the Black Sea city of Tuapse was put out on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Ukrainian drones have hit the oil refinery and export terminal in Tuapse on four occasions in just over two weeks<\/a>, sparking fires that prompted local evacuations and sent up massive plumes of smoke.<\/p>\n

Ukraine has escalated its long-distance strikes against Russian oil facilities<\/a> in an effort to slash Moscow\u2019s oil exports, a key source of funding for its grinding invasion of Ukraine. But the economic impact is so far unclear, as the rise in oil prices from the Iran war<\/a>, and a related easing of U.S. sanctions<\/a>, have helped replenish the Kremlin\u2019s coffers.<\/p>\n

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Follow AP\u2019s coverage of the war in Ukraine at https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/russia-ukraine<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KYIV, Ukraine (AP) \u2014 Two people were killed after a Russian drone attacked a minibus in the southern…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14075,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[151,706,170,631,335,708,759,5,382,213,25,337,173],"class_list":{"0":"post-14074","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-black-sea","9":"tag-drone-surveillance-and-warfare","10":"tag-general-news","11":"tag-international-news","12":"tag-iran-war","13":"tag-military-technology","14":"tag-odesa","15":"tag-russia","16":"tag-russia-government","17":"tag-russia-ukraine-war","18":"tag-ukraine","19":"tag-ukraine-government","20":"tag-world-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}