From Le Figaro with AFP
Published 3 hours ago, updated 47 minutes ago
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The Russian army bombed 118 towns in ten different regions, says the Ukrainian Interior Minister.
Ukraine announced on Wednesday, November 1, that Russia had bombed more than a hundred locations in the past 24 hours. This is the highest number in a single attack since the beginning of the year. Since beginning their offensive in February 2022, Russian forces have fired millions of artillery shells into Ukrainian towns and villages near the front lines, leaving many across the country in ruins. “East of the country.”
“In the last 24 hours, the enemy shelled 118 locations in ten regions,” Ukrainian Interior Minister Igor Klimenko said in a message posted on social networks. “This is the largest number of towns and villages to fall victim to an attack since the beginning of the year.”
In addition, a Russian attack on an oil refinery in Kremenchuk, in the center of the country, which caused no casualties, required the deployment of more than a hundred firefighters who fought for several hours during the ensuing fire, according to Igor Klimenko.
Fear of attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure
Ukraine and its Western allies fear that Russia will step up its attacks on the country’s energy infrastructure ahead of the dreaded winter, as it did last year. The overnight shelling killed one person in the Kharkiv region (northeast) and another person in the Kherson region (south), local officials reported. An attack also killed a resident of the Zaporizhzhia region, while a Russian drone strike in Nikopol, in the south of the country, killed one person and injured four others.
The Ukrainian air force said on Wednesday that it had shot down 18 of the 20 Russian drones launched overnight. The Russian Defense Ministry, for its part, announced that it had shot down two Ukrainian drones over the Bryansk and Kursk regions bordering Ukraine.
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