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Fires have erupted in a major Russian oil refinery<\/a> after a Ukrainian drone attack<\/a> which also hit a military airfield, Ukraine\u2019s drone forces said.
The Unmanned Systems Forces of Ukraine said they hit a refinery in Ryazan and the Annanefteprodukt oil storage facility in the Voronezh region bordering Ukraine.
Kyiv\u2019s SBU intelligence agency also said its drones had hit Russia’s Primorsko-Akhtarsk military airfield, which has been used to launch waves of long-range drones at targets in Ukraine.<\/a>
The attack comes after Donald Trump<\/a> said he has sent two nuclear submarines<\/a> \u201cnear Russia<\/a>\u201d after former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev<\/a> suggested Moscow could strike the US<\/a> with a nuclear weapon.
Mr Trump<\/a> said he was ordering the American vessels after \u201chighly provocative statements<\/a> of the former president of Russia\u201d.
Mr Medvedev, who is deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council<\/a>, told the US president to remember Moscow<\/a> had Soviet-era nuclear strike capabilities<\/a> after Mr Trump threatened further sanctions over the Ukraine<\/a> war.
Mr Trump said the move was a precautionary measure \u201cjust in case these foolish and inflammatory statements are more than just that.\u201d
Mr Medvedev has frequently wielded nuclear threats and lobbed insults at Western leaders on social media.
Vladimir Putin is not ready for serious negotiations on peace in Ukraine, UK foreign secretary David Lammy has said in an interview with The Guardian<\/em>.
“My sober assessment is that Putin is not ready to seriously negotiate,\u201d Mr Lammy told the outlet.
\u201cHe still has maximalist and imperialist ambitions. The battle Ukraine has fought, with UK, European and American support, is immense.\u201d
The foreign secretary also spoke of his admiration of the Ukrainian people.
“Even if the world left them behind, they\u2019d still be waging a guerrilla war, such is their belief in their country. It\u2019s deeply inspiring,\u201d he said.
An injured Ukrainian soldier stuck behind enemy lines for days was rescued after being delivered an e-bike by a drone.
A video of the dramatic rescue showed a UAV drone airdropping the 40kg bike down to the wounded man, who was surrounded by Russian forces, before he cycled away.
The soldier\u2019s Rubizh brigade said three men were killed by enemy fire during a skirmish in Siversk, northern Ukraine, leaving the soldier on his own for five days.
A fire that broke out near the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant after Ukrainian shelling has been brought under control, the Russian-installed administration of the Russia-held plant in Ukraine said on Saturday.
Russian forces seized the Zaporizhzhia plant in the first weeks of Russia’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine. Both sides have accused each other of firing or taking other actions that could trigger a nuclear accident.
The plant’s administration said on Telegram that a civilian had been killed in the shelling, but that no plant employees or members of the emergency services had been injured.
The station, Europe’s biggest nuclear power plant, is not operating but still requires power to keep its nuclear fuel cool.
The plant’s Russia-installed management said radiation levels remained within normal levels and the situation was under control.
There has been no response from the Kremlin, Russian foreign ministry or defence ministry since US president Donald Trump said he had ordered two nuclear submarines \u201cnear Russia\u201d.
Russia’s defence ministry said Russian forces had captured the village of Oleksandro-Kalynove in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region on Saturday
The battlefield report was not immediately verified.
Ukraine’s military said on Saturday that it had struck oil facilities inside Russia, including a major refinery as well as a military airfield for drones and an electronics factory.
In a statement on Telegram, Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces said they had hit the oil refinery in Ryazan, about 180 km (110 miles) southeast of Moscow, causing a fire on its premises.
Also hit, the USF said, was the Annanefteprodukt oil storage facility in the Voronezh region that borders on northeastern Ukraine.
The statement did not specify how the facilities were hit, but the USF specialises in drone warfare, including long-range strikes.
There was no immediate comment from Russia on the reported attacks on its infrastructure sites.
Ukrainian drone attacks overnight into Saturday killed three people, Russian officials said.
Russia’s Defence Ministry said air defenses intercepted or destroyed 112 drones across eight Russian regions and the Russian-occupied Crimean Peninsula.
A drone attack on the Rostov region, on the border with Ukraine, killed one person, acting governor Yuri Slyusar said.
Further from the front line, a woman was killed and two other people wounded in a drone strike on business premises in the Penza region, according to regional governor Oleg Melnichenko.
In the Samara region, falling drone debris sparked a fire that killed an elderly resident, regional Gov. Vyacheslav Fedorishchev said.
According to the Ukrainian air force, Russia launched 53 drones and decoys at Ukraine overnight into Saturday.
It said that air defenses shot down or jammed 45 drones.
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