2023-11-01 13:38:29
Is Vladimir Putin taking advantage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to divert attention? Ukraine announced this Wednesday, November 1, that Russia had bombed 118 locations in the last 24 hours, the largest number in a single attack since the start of the year.
“During the last 24 hours, the enemy bombarded 118 localities 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 suffer an attack since the start of the year”.
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Furthermore, a Russian attack on an oil refinery in Kremenchouk (center of the country), which did not cause any casualties, required the dispatch of more than a hundred firefighters to fight several hours during the fire which followed, according to Igor Klimenko.
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Shells by the millions
The overnight shelling killed one person in the Kharkiv region (Northeast) and another person in the Kherson region (South), local officials reported. A Russian drone attack also killed one person and injured four others in Nikopol, in the south of the country. The Ukrainian Air Force announced on Wednesday that it had shot down 18 of the 20 Russian drones launched during the night. For its part, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced that it had shot down two Ukrainian drones over the regions of Bryansk and Kursk, which border Ukraine.
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Since launching their offensive in February 2022, Russian forces have fired millions of artillery shells at Ukrainian towns and villages near the front lines, reducing many to rubble across the country. is from the country. Ukraine and its Western allies fear that Russia will intensify its attacks on the country’s energy infrastructure before the dreaded winter, as it did last year.
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