Ukrainian drone strikes have killed at least three people and wounded two others overnight in western Russia, regional governors said, as a\u00a0fire broke out at an oil refinery in central Russia after it was hit.<\/p>\n
One woman was killed and two others wounded in an attack on an enterprise in Penza, the region\u2019s governor, Oleg Melnichenko, wrote on Telegram on Saturday.<\/p>\n
The second death of an elderly man happened inside a house that caught fire due to falling drone debris in the Samara region, Governor Vyacheslav Fedorishchev posted on Telegram.<\/p>\n
In the Rostov region, a guard at an industrial facility was killed after a drone attack and a fire in one of the site\u2019s buildings, acting Rostov Governor Yury Slyusar said. \u201cThe military repelled a massive air attack during the night,\u201d destroying drones over seven districts, Slyusar posted on Telegram.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Ukraine\u2019s military said it struck Russia\u2019s Ryazan oil refinery on Saturday, causing a fire on its territory.<\/p>\n
In a statement on Telegram, the Unmanned Systems Forces also said they hit the Annanefteprodukt oil storage facility in the Voronezh region. The statement did not specify how the facilities were hit, but Ukraine\u2019s military specialises in drone warfare, including long-range strikes.<\/p>\n
Separately, Ukraine\u2019s SBU intelligence agency said its drones had hit Russia\u2019s Primorsko-Akhtarsk military airfield, which has been used to launch waves of long-range drones at targets in Ukraine.<\/p>\n
The SBU said it also hit a factory in Penza that it said supplies Russia\u2019s military-industrial complex with electronics.<\/p>\n
At the start of Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion<\/a> in 2022, Ukraine had no response to Moscow\u2019s vast long-range strike capacity but it has since built up a fleet of long-range kamikaze drones able to carry explosive warheads for many hundreds of kilometres (miles).<\/p>\n Russia\u2019s Defence Ministry said in its daily report that its defence units had downed a total of 338 Ukrainian drones overnight.<\/p>\n In Ukraine\u2019s central Dnipropetrovsk region, overnight Russian drone attacks also left three people wounded, Governor Serhiy Lysak wrote on Telegram. Several buildings, homes and cars were damaged, he added.<\/p>\n Russia\u2019s Defence Ministry said its forces captured the village of Oleksandro-Kalynove in the Donetsk region on Saturday. Russian forces now control almost 20 percent of Ukraine in its east and south after three and a half years of the grinding war.<\/p>\n Kyiv, however, denies any Russian presence in the Dnipropetrovsk area.<\/p>\n Reporting from Moscow, Al Jazeera\u2019s Osama Bin Javaid said that while there have been indications of a ceasefire in the past, the situation on the ground remains the same.<\/p>\n \u201cAs tensions escalate, it appears that diplomacy will be a possible way out,\u201d he said, adding that the United States\u2019s Middle East envoy Steve Witkofff, who has close relations with Russian officials, is expected in Moscow soon to negotiate a truce.<\/p>\n US President Donald Trump on Friday said he had ordered two nuclear submarines<\/a> to be positioned in \u201cthe appropriate regions\u201d in response to remarks from former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev about the risk of war between the nuclear-armed adversaries.<\/p>\n