Ukraine announced Wednesday that Russia had bombed more than 100 locations in the past 24 hours, the largest number in a single attack since the start of the year.
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. ‘East of the country.
“During the last 24 hours, the enemy shelled 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.”
Fear of winter
Furthermore, a Russian attack on an oil refinery in Kremenchuk (center), which did not cause any casualties, required the dispatch of more than a hundred firefighters to fight the fire which followed for several hours. , according to Igor Klimenko.
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.
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.