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Ukraine\u2019s General Staff said oil depot were attacked in occupied Zaporizhzhia and Crimea
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Ukrainian<\/a> forces fired Flamingo missiles<\/a> at Russian oil facilities<\/a> in a fresh wave of overnight strikes, the military has said on Thursday.
This included strikes on the Morskoy Neftyanoy oil terminal in occupied Crimea <\/a>and an oil depot in occupied Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine\u2019s General Staff said.
The attack came as top military commander Oleksandr Syrskyi said the Russian army overran three settlements in the southern Zaporizhzhia<\/a> region and Ukrainian units are locked in \u201cgrueling battles\u201d to repel the thrust.
\u201cLast night, several long-range strike systems were launched, including the domestically developed Flamingo, Bars and Lyutyi,\u201d the military said.
The scale of the damage is still being assessed, it added.
This comes as Ukrainian forces pulled back from several positions in the southern Zaporizhzhia<\/a> region amid heavy fighting and adverse weather.
Russia<\/a> is taking advantage of the weather to advance in small groups, moving on foot or motorcycles, with the adverse weather preventing Ukrainian forces from deploying drones against them.
After nearly four years of bitter war, Ukraine\u2019s defence industry has more understanding than most of the demands of the modern battlefield.
The latest innovation is a cruise missile with a range of 3,000km and a payload of over a tonne, used in strikes deep into Russian territory.
Where weapons from allies come with conditions, Kyiv can fire the FP-5 Flamingo missile at any target it wants.
With arms supplies from the West so uncertain, Volodymyr Zelensky has said Ukraine now makes about 60 per cent of its own weapons.
World affairs editor Sam Kiley reports from Kyiv:<\/em>
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky has given an update on the frontline situation in Ukraine, as he visits the region of Zaporizhzhia just kilometres from Russian positions.
\u201cEastern Ukraine is, without a doubt, a major challenge,\u201d he said in an update on X.
\u201cAnd here, on the Orikhiv direction, it has always been intense. I thank all the soldiers, officers, and sergeants for defending this sector \u2013 the entire Zaporizhzhia region, and the city of Zaporizhzhia, which is so important.\u201d<\/a>
Ukrainian prime minister Yuliia Svyrydenko said on Thursday that her government would carry out an audit of all state-owned companies, including energy ones, following a major corruption scandal that has led to the suspension of two cabinet ministers.
“We are preparing a comprehensive solution for all state-owned companies, including energy companies. We are conducting an audit and have instructed the supervisory boards to check the status of work, especially in the area of procurement,” she said in a video published on the Telegram app.
Ukrainian forces fired domestically-produced missiles, including the Flamingo, in a wave of attacks on Russian targets overnight, the military has said.
This includes an attack on the Morskoy Neftyanoy Terminal oil storage facility in occupied Crimea.
A helicopter parking site and other military facilities, including the Kirovske airfield, were also struck.
\u201cLast night, several long-range strike systems were launched, including the domestically developed Flamingo, Bars and Lyutyi,\u201d the Ukrainian army\u2019s general staff said in a social media update.
“Units from the Ukrainian defence forces struck several dozen targets in Russia and the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine on the night of 12-13 November as part of efforts to reduce the military, economic and offensive capabilities of Russia, the aggressor state,\u201d the Ukrainian army\u2019s general staff said.
Another oil depot near Berdyansk in the Zaporizhzhia region was hit, as were several targets inside Russia.
The scale of the damage is still being assessed, the military added.
Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov has said he hoped Washington would take no actions liable to escalate the Ukraine conflict.
Lavrov said US president Donald Trump had long advocated dialogue with Russia, had sought to fully understand the Russian position on Ukraine and “demonstrated a commitment to finding a sustainable peaceful solution”.
“We are counting on common sense and that the maintaining of that position will prevail in Washington and that they will refrain from actions that could escalate the conflict to a new level,” Lavrov was quoted as saying by Russian state news agency TASS.
The Russian minister did not acknowledge Moscow\u2019s role in increasingly attacking Ukraine in its winter offensive.
Lavrov’s comments were originally part of an interview with Italian daily Corriere della Sera. Tass said the Italian daily had declined to publish the interview.
Lavrov said Trump had acknowledged that one of the reasons behind Russia’s actions was enlargement of the Nato alliance and the deployment of its infrastructure close to its border.
“In essence, that is what Russian president Vladimir Putin and Russia have been warning about for the last 20 years,” Lavrov was quoted as saying.
Read our Bulletin on Volodymyr Zelensky\u2019s corruption scandal, bringing you all you need to know in just five bullet points…<\/em><\/strong>
The Bulgarian parliament has overruled a presidential veto on legislation allowing the government to take control of Lukoil’s oil refinery and sell it to shield the asset from looming US sanctions.
The US Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and Britain imposed sanctions last month on Lukoil and Rosneft, Russia’s two biggest oil companies, escalating pressure on Russian President Vladimir Putin to end the war in Ukraine and threatening their operations across Europe.
Lawmakers approved changes last week giving a government-appointed commercial manager powers to oversee the continued operation of Lukoil’s refinery in Bulgaria beyond November 21, when the U.S. sanctions are due to take effect, and to sell the company if needed.
President Rumen Radev vetoed the bill on Wednesday, warning it lacked safeguards against future financial claims against the state.
Parliament rejected his objections by 128 votes to 59 on Thursday, the Bulgarian news agency BTA reported.
German chancellor Friedrich Merz and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky have discussed an energy scandal that has engulfed the latter’s government on the phone, the German government said in a statement on Thursday.
Mr Zelensky pledged complete transparency, long-term support for independent anti-corruption authorities and further swift measures to regain the trust of the Ukrainian people, European partners and international donors, the statement said.
“The chancellor emphasized the German government’s expectation that Ukraine would vigorously pursue the fight against corruption and further reforms, particularly in the area of the rule of law,” it added.
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