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How Russia, Ukraine traded strikes overnight on oil, energy sites - videos

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ABHISHEK MISHRA
How Russia, Ukraine traded strikes overnight on oil, energy sites - videos
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Russia and Ukraine have engaged in a series of intense aerial strikes targeting energy and industrial infrastructure. The attacks resulted in casualties and significant damage to power supplies in Ukraine, occurring amid ongoing diplomatic tensions.

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The escalation of strikes on critical energy infrastructure significantly impacts the humanitarian and economic situation in the region.

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Russia launched a massive overnight barrage of missiles and drones across Ukraine, striking oil, gas and industrial facilities and killing at least four people, Ukrainian officials said on Tuesday.The attack targeted a key oil and gas facility in Ukraine’s Poltava region with ballistic missiles, according to Reuters.Moscow also struck industrial sites in the southeastern cities of Dnipro, Kryvyi Rih and Pavlohrad, while an attack on an energy facility in the northern Chernihiv region cut power supplies to nearly 100,000 consumers.The latest exchange of aerial attacks came as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was visiting the United States and after US President Donald Trump raised concerns that both sides should stop targeting each other’s fuel infrastructure.Russia has intensified its air campaign in recent months, hitting economic targets ranging from businesses and ports to logistics hubs, even as fighting along the front line has largely stalled more than four years after Moscow’s full-scale…

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