A Ukrainian drone caused a fire at an oil refinery in southern Russia and a Russian town near the border was shelled for the third time in a week, damaging buildings and setting fire to vehicles, Russian officials said on Wednesday.

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08:20Four people were killed and 16 were injured as a result of Ukrainian shelling of the village of Karpaty in the Luhansk region, the local coordination center established by Moscow reported on Wednesday, citing Reuters.

The center said on its Telegram messaging channel that the bombing hit a poultry farm, Agerpres said.

Reuters could not independently verify the information.

Moscow controls almost the entire Luhansk region of Ukraine.

08:06 Russian authorities in the Belgorod region say the town near the border with Ukraine was bombed for the third time in a week on Wednesday, injuring four people and damaging buildings and cars, Reuters reports.

Two people were hospitalized as a result of artillery fire in the city of Shebekino, Vyacheslav Gladkov of the Belgorod province reported on his Telegram channel.

Reuters says it was unable to independently verify the information.

Belgorod, which borders Ukraine’s Kharkiv region, has been increasingly attacked by Ukrainian forces in recent months.

07:52A fire at an oil refinery in Krasnodar was extinguished after a possible drone attack, Governor Veniamin Kondratiev said, CNN reports, citing news.ro.

The fire broke out at the Afip refinery in the Siversky district, there were no casualties, Kondratiev reported on Telegram early Wednesday morning.

According to him, one of the fuel oil distillation units caught fire.

The governor clarified that “fire brigades, the Ministry of Emergency Situations and the State Emergency Service” are working to extinguish the fire.

One of the considered hypotheses is that the fire could have been caused by a drone attack.

07:05The attack in Moscow could be a “turning point” for the end of Putin’s rule, the analyst believes

Today’s drone attack on Moscow could be “the beginning of a tipping point” that could lead to the end of Vladimir Putin as Russia’s leader, a global business analyst says.

Speaking to Sky News, Michael Botsyurkiv, a senior member of the Atlantic Council, said today’s attack was an “extraordinary breakthrough in Russian defences”.

06:00 The ministers of foreign affairs of the EU member states adopted on Tuesday the first list of sanctions, which includes five names applied to individuals to counter actions to destabilize the Republic of Moldova.

05:20 An American woman who has accused Joe Biden of sexual abuse since the 1990s during the 2020 election campaign asked President Vladimir Putin for Russian citizenship on Tuesday during an interview with Russian media in Moscow, AFP and Agerpres reported.

01:23 In his message on Tuesday evening, Volodymyr Zelenskyi announced negotiations with BAE Systems regarding the opening of an ammunition production and repair plant in Ukraine.

01:05In his usual evening speech, Zelensky avoids mentioning the Moscow attack

He previously denied Kiev’s direct involvement in the attack after Vladimir Putin called the attack a “terrorist act” by Ukraine.

00:54 Moscow continues to distribute Russian passports in the occupied regions of Ukraine. How many residents received Russian citizenship

00:31 Ukrainians have been urged to turn off 24-hour webcams due to fears that they are reporting on Russian attacks

The Security Service of Ukraine has urged residents to turn off online broadcasts from webcams, fearing that the Russian military is using the footage to inform about its attacks.

A brief summary of recent events:

• A defense analyst explains why Moscow’s attack could represent a ‘false flag’. The presence of footage of the nighttime drone strike in Moscow could indicate “some element of pre-planning” that could indicate it was a false-flag operation, a defense analyst said.
• Ukraine has the right to strike targets on the territory of Russia for the purpose of self-defense, says the head of British diplomacy, James Cleverley.
• The drone attack is a “terrorist act,” Putin said. Vladimir Putin continued to comment on the drone attacks on Moscow today, calling them an attempt to “intimidate” Russia, Sky News reports.
• What experts think is behind recent Russian missile and drone attacks / Three reasons
• In his message on Tuesday evening, Volodymyr Zelenskyi announced negotiations with BAE Systems regarding the opening of an ammunition production and repair plant in Ukraine.
• Moscow continues to distribute Russian passports in the occupied regions of Ukraine. How many residents received Russian citizenship
• Ukrainians have been urged to turn off 24-hour webcams due to fears that they are reporting on Russian attacks
• Ukraine asks the European Commission to return to full liberalization of Ukrainian grain imports to the EU
• Lavrov accuses the West of “supporting genocide” in Ukraine. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who is on a tour of Africa, said on Tuesday that the West is “supporting genocide” in Ukraine by backing President Volodymyr Zelenskyi’s peace plan, which he said will “destroy everything Russian” in eastern Ukraine and Crimea .

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