Kyiv reported on Monday (October 7, 2024) that its forces had attacked a large oil terminal overnight on the occupied Crimean peninsula while Moscow claimed the capture of another village in eastern Ukraine.
Ukrainian forces have increased strikes on Russia’s energy sector in recent months in an effort to disrupt revenues used by Moscow to finance its invasion, now in its third year.
“During the night, a successful strike was carried out on the enemy’s offshore oil terminal in the temporarily occupied Feodosia, Crimea,” the Ukrainian military announced on social media.
Authorities installed by Russia in Crimea reported a fire at an oil facility in the Black Sea port town of Feodosia, with no reported casualties.
The Defence Ministry stated that 12 Ukrainian attack drones were shot down over the peninsula overnight, out of a total of 21 deployed by Kyiv against Russian targets.
“The Feodosia terminal is the largest in Crimea in terms of oil product transshipment, which were used to support the Russian occupation army,” the Ukrainian military stated, pledging to continue such attacks.
Ukraine maintains that these strikes are a justified response to Russian attacks on its own energy infrastructure, which have left millions without power.
Meanwhile, Russia’s Defence Ministry claimed the capture of a village in eastern Ukraine near the strategically important city of Pokrovsk.
Missiles target Kyiv
The Defence Ministry announced the capture of the village of Grodivka, a settlement in the Donetsk region near Pokrovsk, as Russian troops advance towards the key logistics hub.
The village, with an estimated pre-war population of around 2,000, is the latest in a series of towns in the Donetsk region to fall to Russian forces as they push towards Pokrovsk.
Last week, the Ukrainian Army withdrew from the mining town of Vugledar in the Donetsk region, giving Russia one of its most significant territorial gains in weeks.
In a series of separate attacks on Monday, Ukrainian authorities reported three civilians killed in overnight Russian attacks — two brothers aged 35 and 38 in the eastern Sumy region and a 61-year-old woman in the southern Kherson region.
The Kherson governor later stated that a Russian strike on the town had injured 19 people and caused damage to an educational facility and various residential buildings.
In the Zaporizhzhia region, which Russia claimed to have annexed along with three other Ukrainian regions in 2022, three people were wounded in Russian attacks on infrastructure facilities, according to local authorities.
Russian forces launched several missiles and dozens of drones at Ukraine overnight, with the Ukrainian air force reporting two missiles intercepted over the capital and a third exploding near an airfield in the central Khmelnytsky region.
Authorities in Kyiv reported that debris from the intercepted missiles landed near a kindergarten.
Russian media company VGTRK, which operates the country’s main state-run television channels, stated earlier on Monday that it had been targeted in an “unprecedented” hacker attack, claimed by Kyiv.
“Despite attempts to disrupt the broadcast of federal TV channels and radio stations by the company, everything is functioning normally, with no significant threat,” state media confirmed.
Published – October 08, 2024 01:03 am IST
