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Ukrainian authorities did not comment on the attack by midday Sunday, but Kyiv acknowledged targeting<\/a> the Taman port’s oil export facilities earlier this year. With Russia’s fossil-fuel earnings funding its war on Ukraine, Kyiv views oil export sites as key targets.<\/p>\n

After Moscow intensified its attacks on Ukrainian power infrastructure last year, the two sides briefly halted energy-related strikes as part of a U.S.-brokered moratorium in late January. The pause, however, was short-lived. <\/p>\n

The strike on the Taman port came one week after Russia launched a major attack<\/a> on Ukrainian energy facilities, compounding the situation for the country’s battered power sector. Russian strikes have left households in Kyiv without power and heating amid freezing temperatures.<\/p>\n

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Sunday that Russia has launched about 1,300 attack drones, more than 1,200 guided aerial bombs and 50 missiles against Ukraine in the past week<\/a>. <\/p>\n

“Today, the Odesa, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia and Sumy regions came under enemy attack,” Zelenskyy said in a post on X<\/a>. “As before, the main target of these attacks is the energy sector, [but] many strikes also hit residential infrastructure,” he said.<\/p>\n

On Friday, the United Nations’ monitoring mission in Ukraine condemned<\/a> Russia’s repeated attacks on Kyiv’s energy infrastructure as showing “a grave disregard for the lives and well-being of civilians.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ukrainian authorities did not comment on the attack by midday Sunday, but Kyiv acknowledged targeting the Taman port’s…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":591896,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[36206,5755,5495,264,42374,51,5173,50,270,5500,257,52,273,275],"class_list":["post-591895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-coal","tag-drones","tag-energy","tag-exports","tag-grains","tag-headlines","tag-infrastructure","tag-news","tag-oil","tag-ports","tag-russia","tag-top-stories","tag-ukraine","tag-war-in-ukraine"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116075103088800567","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=591895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/591896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}