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Kyiv and Moscow traded strikes overnight, with Russian attacks on Ukraine killing two people and injuring more than 20.
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Ukrainian strikes on Russian-occupied territory and inside Russia killed one and injured 10, per Moscow.
Russian forces targeted production facilities belonging to the Naftogaz Group, Ukraine’s largest national oil and gas company, in the Poltava and Kharkiv regions.
The barrage of attacks included 129 drones, of which 113 were destroyed or jammed by Ukrainian forces, Ukrainian media reported.
For its part, Ukraine said it carried out strikes on the Titan-Barrikady military plant in Volgograd, which is thought to be involved in the production of components for the Oreshnik missile system.
Ukrainian Telegram channels reported that the facility was hit by long-range Flamingo cruise missiles, with at least two confirmed impacts.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy posted a video to social media appearing to show the strikes.
Zelenskyy said that Titan-Barrikady is a major industrial complex producing artillery systems and other military equipment, including components for missile launcher systems used in strikes against Ukraine.
“Every Russian defence facility involved in the war against Ukraine is a legitimate target for our long-range strikes,” he wrote.
Casualties reported across Ukraine
In the southeastern Dnipropetrovsk region of Ukraine, one person was killed and two were injured following a wave of strikes.
“The enemy attacked two districts of the region more than 30 times with drones and aerial bombs,” Oleksandr Ganja, the head of the regional military administration, said on Telegram.
In the Sumy district in the north, a 66-year-old man was killed in a Russian drone attack on a house, regional military governor Oleg Grygorov reported. “A massive attack” elsewhere in the region also injured 10, he said.
Strikes on the southeastern town of Zaporizhzhia injured nine, including two children, Ukraine’s State Emergency Service added.
“The enemy attack caused extensive destruction to the city’s civilian infrastructure,” the service said. “Specifically, a residential high-rise building was partially destroyed. Emergency workers rescued two people from under the rubble.”
Russian oil station targeted
The Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) struck Russia’s Vtorovo oil pumping station for the second time in June. Early reports from the SSU indicated that drones hit the facility’s technical buildings. The Vtorovo station supplies fuel to Moscow and is also used to supply oil products for export through Baltic Sea ports.
Meanwhile, Russian forces have continued their daily bombardments across several Ukrainian regions, causing civilian casualties and extensive damage to infrastructure.
Russia has bombarded Ukraine almost daily since the start of its full-scale invasion in February 2022.
