On this picture launched by Leningrad Area Governor Alexander Drozdenko's Telegram Channel, firefighters put out a fireplace at Russia's second-largest pure fuel producer Novatek within the port of Ust-Luga, 165 kilometers southwest of St. Petersburg , Russia, Sunday, January 21. 2024. Native media reported that the port had been attacked by Ukrainian drones, inflicting a fuel tank to blow up.
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On this picture launched by the Telegram Channel of Leningrad Area Governor Alexander Drozdenko, firefighters put out a fireplace at Russia's second largest pure fuel producer Novatek within the port of Ust-Luga, 165 kilometers south -west of St. Petersburg, Russia, Sunday, January 21. 2024. Native media reported that the port had been attacked by Ukrainian drones, inflicting a fuel tank.
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KYIV, Ukraine – No less than 25 individuals had been killed Sunday in a shelling at a market on the outskirts of the Russian-occupied Ukrainian metropolis of Donetsk, native officers reported.
One other 20 individuals had been injured within the strike within the suburb of Tekstilshchik, together with two kids, mentioned Denis Pushilin, head of Russian authorities in Donetsk. He mentioned the shells had been fired by the Ukrainian military.
Kiev has not commented on the occasion and the claims couldn’t be independently verified by The Related Press.
Pushilin mentioned that the world had been hit by 155 mm and 152 mm artillery, and that the shells had been fired from the course of Kurakhove and Krasnohorivka to the west. He additionally confirmed that emergency companies continued to work on the scene.
In an announcement, the Ministry of Overseas Affairs of Russia described the strike, which hit Ukraine, as a “terrorist assault”.
“These terrorist assaults by the Kiev regime clearly exhibit their lack of political will in direction of attaining peace and the answer of this battle via diplomatic means,” he mentioned. Additionally on Sunday, hearth broke out at a chemical transport terminal in Russia's Ust-Luga port after two explosions, regional officers mentioned. Native media reported that the port had been attacked by Ukrainian drones, inflicting the explosion of a fuel tank.
The fireplace was at a website operated by Russia's second-largest pure fuel producer, Novatek, 165 kilometers southwest of St. Petersburg.
In a press assertion to Russian media outlet RBC, the corporate mentioned the fireplace was the results of an “exterior affect.” He additionally mentioned he had suspended operations on the port.
Yuri Zapalatsky, the pinnacle of Russia's Kingisepp district, the place the port is predicated, mentioned in an announcement that there have been no casualties, however that the world had been placed on excessive alert.
Fontanka mentioned two drones had been detected flying in direction of St Petersburg on Sunday morning, however had been redirected in direction of the Kingisepp district. The Related Press couldn’t independently confirm the studies.
The Russian Protection Ministry didn’t report any drone exercise within the Kingisepp space in its each day briefing. He mentioned 4 Ukrainian drones had been shot down in Russia's Smolensk area, and two extra had been shot down within the Oryol and Tula areas.
Russian officers earlier confirmed {that a} Ukrainian drone was shot down on the outskirts of St. Petersburg on Thursday.
Within the frontline preventing, Russia's Protection Ministry introduced on Sunday that Moscow's forces had taken management of the village of Krokhmalne in Ukraine's Kharkiv area.
Ukrainian forces confirmed that the ability was occupied, however described its seize as a “short-term phenomenon.”
Volodymyr Fityo, spokesman for the Ukrainian Floor Forces Command, mentioned that Kiev troops had been returned to pre-prepared reserve positions.
He mentioned that Krokhmalne had a inhabitants of about 45 individuals earlier than the beginning of the large-scale invasion of Russia in February 2022. “That's 5 homes, in all probability,” he was quoted by the Ukrainian newspaper Hromadske. “Our principal objective is to avoid wasting the lives of the defenders of Ukraine.”
Russian and Ukrainian forces continued to combat from largely static positions alongside the roughly 930-mile entrance line all through the winter.
Current Russian assaults have tried to seek out gaps in Ukraine's defenses through the use of numerous various kinds of missiles in an obvious effort to saturate air protection techniques.
The huge barrages — greater than 500 drones and missiles had been fired between December 29 and January 2, in accordance with officers in Kiev — additionally used Ukraine's weapons stockpiles.
