Russia-Ukraine overnight strikes, Digi Mart USA News: Overnight strikes between Russia and Ukraine have killed at least four people and damaged a Russian oil refinery, according to a report published by Al Jazeera.
A Russian attack on Ukraine’s port city of Odesa killed three people, the head of the city’s military administration said on Monday. One other person was wounded and was in serious condition.
The Kirishi refinery in Russia’s Leningrad region was also set on fire in a Ukrainian drone attack, Governor Aleksandr Drozdenko said on Monday in a post on Telegram. One woman was killed by falling drone debris, Drozdenko said.
The Ukrainian military’s chief of staff said Ukraine also hit the Morozov plant near St Petersburg, which produces explosives and fuel for Russian missiles used against Ukraine.
Leningrad’s governor also said air defense forces downed 113 Ukrainian drones and an apartment in Kirishi had been damaged in the same overnight attack on the region. Russian forces also struck three power substations and a cargo ship in the Black Sea that Moscow said was providing arms to Ukrainian forces, Russian state news agencies reported.
Al Jazeera could not independently verify these claims.
Russia has attacked Ukraine’s energy sector 128 times over the past week, according to Ukraine’s Ministry of Energy. It said the attacks are part of a long-term campaign to degrade Ukraine’s energy and heating infrastructure before the winter.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced on Monday that his country had agreed to establish a new mechanism to allow European Union funds to be deployed more quickly in response to Russian attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure. In a post on X, he said many cities and communities were facing a very difficult situation with power, water and heating supplies.
He said he had agreed with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to “activate a special emergency mechanism” for European funding “for what is needed most.”
The Kyiv, Dnipro, Sumy and Donetsk regions, as well as Kherson, are facing the most acute energy crises, the Ukrainian president said.
The Kremlin insisted on Monday that this week’s negotiations between Russia, Ukraine and the United States will remain in the “trilateral” format. French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot had said Europe would be represented at Tuesday’s talks and France would participate.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the talks in Abu Dhabi are trilateral negotiations under U.S. mediation, adding that Europeans and Ukrainians maintain separate channels of communication.
Zelenskyy said he had coordinated negotiating positions with von der Leyen before the Abu Dhabi talks.
U.S. President Donald Trump stoked fears that Washington would side with the Kremlin when he announced plans for a “very big” deal with Russia involving not only Ukraine but “all of Europe.”
