KYIV, Ukraine\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Two people were killed after a Russian drone attacked a minibus in the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson, officials said Saturday, in the latest strike on a civilian area, a hallmark of Moscow\u2019s war on Ukraine. <\/p>\n
Seven people were wounded in the attack, regional head Oleksandr Prokudin said. Hours later, Russia attacked another minibus in Kherson, wounding the driver, he said.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, along the northern border with Belarus, Ukraine recorded \u201crather unusual\u201d activity on Friday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Saturday in a post on Telegram. Without elaborating, he said that activity was seen on the Belarusian side of the border and that Ukraine would act if matters escalated.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are closely documenting and keeping the situation under control. If necessary, we will react,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
Belarus, a close ally of the Kremlin, has allowed Russia to use its territory as a staging ground to send troops into Ukraine and to host some of Moscow\u2019s tactical nuclear weapons.<\/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 invaded their country more than four years ago. U.S.-brokered talks between Moscow and Kyiv over the last year have brought no respite, with Russia rejecting Ukraine\u2019s offer of a ceasefire, and in recent weeks, the Iran war has diverted U.S. attention from Ukraine\u2019s plight.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, on the roughly 750-mile front line, Russia said Saturday that 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, officials in the Krasnodar region said that a fire that broke out Friday after a Ukrainian strike on an oil terminal in the Black Sea city of Tuapse was put out Saturday.<\/p>\n
Ukrainian drones have hit the oil refinery and export terminal in Tuapse on four occasions in just over two weeks, sparking fires that prompted evacuations and sent up massive plumes of smoke.<\/p>\n
Ukraine has escalated its long-distance strikes against Russian oil facilities 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, and a related easing of U.S. sanctions, have helped replenish the Kremlin\u2019s coffers.<\/p>\n
Kullab writes for the Associated Press. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KYIV, Ukraine\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Two people were killed after a Russian drone attacked a minibus in the southern Ukrainian city of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":933735,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7654],"tags":[188488,18185,2000,299,8453,15964,2301,19968,332,209911,21029,174785,261157,657,261156,771,3118],"class_list":["post-933734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ukraine","tag-black-sea-coast","tag-control","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-friday","tag-kherson","tag-moscow","tag-official","tag-russia","tag-russian-attack","tag-saturday","tag-tuapse","tag-u-s-attention","tag-ukraine","tag-ukrainian-minibus","tag-war","tag-year"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116507266482147498","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=933734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/933735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=933734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=933734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=933734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}