- A village in the Voronezh region of western Russia was evacuated after debris from a downed Ukrainian drone set a nearby warehouse on fire.
- Governor Aleksandr Gusev confirmed that the explosive objects detonated due to the falling debris of the drone.
- Ukrainian forces targeted an ammunition storage depot in Serhiyevka, Voronezh region.
A village in the border area Western Russia The town was evacuated on Sunday after a series of explosions triggered by debris from a Ukrainian drone ignited a fire at a nearby warehouse, local authorities said.
Social media footage showed clouds of black smoke rising over the Voronezh region, while repeated loud explosions could be heard.
Governor Alexander Gusev said falling debris “caused explosive objects to explode.” He said no casualties were reported, but residents of a nearby village in the Podgorensky district were evacuated. Roads were also closed as emergency services, the military and government officials worked at the scene.
Kiev’s forces are facing a planned Russian offensive in eastern Ukraine, a military official said
A Ukrainian security official told The Associated Press that a warehouse storing ammunition was attacked in the village of Serhiivka in the Voronezh region.
Colleagues of British combat medic volunteer Peter Fouche, 49, who was killed during his work in eastern Ukraine on June 27, mourn during a funeral ceremony on the city’s main square in Kyiv, Ukraine, July 6, 2024. Peter was the founder of a charity organisation that provides vehicles, drones and other necessities to Ukrainian soldiers. (AP Photo/Alexey Babenko)
“The enemy has stored surface-to-surface and surface-to-air missiles, shells for tanks and artillery, and cartridge boxes for firearms,” the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. “This is the warehouse from which the occupiers supply ammunition to their troops in Ukraine.”
The official also said Ukraine’s State Security Service was behind a drone attack on an oil depot in Russia’s Krasnodar region the previous day. Russian emergency services reported that falling debris from the drone caused a fire at the site, which was successfully extinguished on Sunday morning.
The Russian Defence Ministry did not mention any attacks in its morning briefing, but said air defence systems had destroyed a Ukrainian drone in the Belgorod region.
The attack follows information provided to the AP by a Ukrainian military spokesman on Thursday. Kiev troops retreated from a neighborhood On the outskirts of Chasiv Yar, a strategically important town in Ukraine’s Donetsk region that has been reduced to rubble by a month-long Russian offensive.
Russian army Ukraine has been trying to gain ground in its industrial east for months, an apparent attempt to surround its defenders. A War In a joint investigation published on Friday, independent Russian news outlets Meduza and Mediazona reported that Moscow’s forces are losing 200 to 250 soldiers every day in Ukraine.
Military analysts say the fall of Chasiv Yar could also cut off vital Ukrainian supply routes and endanger nearby towns, moving Russia closer to its stated aim of capturing the entire Donetsk region.
has also been a major target in Russian attacks Energy infrastructure of UkraineAuthorities in Kiev said on Saturday the city had restored two-thirds of its electricity generation capacity after key power plants were destroyed in recent Russian missile attacks.
“A huge amount of work has been done,” said Petro Panteleev, deputy head of the Kiev city administration. “The city’s energy facilities, which were mainly built in Soviet times, are being modernized and have become much more efficient.”
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Ukrainian air force officials said Russia sent two ballistic missiles and 13 Shahed drones on Sunday night. All were shot down, but officials did not elaborate on the impact of the missiles.
Eight people killed in Russian attacks Across Ukraine According to local regional authorities, the incident occurred the previous day.
Governor Oleksandr Prokudin said four people were killed in the Kherson region, while in Donetsk, Governor Vadym Filyashkin said two more people were killed in the cities of Niu-York and Ukrainsk. In Dnipropetrovsk, a 65-year-old woman was killed in a Russian attack in the Nikopol district, while a 47-year-old man was killed in the Kharkiv region, Governors Serhiy Lysak and Oleh Sinyhubov said in their statements.
Fourteen people were killed and one person survived when a bus collided with a freight vehicle in Ukraine, Interior Minister Ihor Klimenko said on Saturday evening. A 6-year-old child was among the dead.
