Ukraine-Russia war latest: Kyiv hits Russian oil refinery after Putin’s shopping centre strike killed 16 people

President Volodymyr Zelensky has said Ukraine hit the Novokuybyshevsk refinery and Ozon hub in Russia and shared footage of the aftermath on social media.

In a post on X he said: “Over the past 24 hours, our forces struck the Novokuybyshevsk refinery—1,000 kilometers from the front line—depriving the Russian war machine of millions of dollars in export revenues.

“We also hit a logistics hub in the Samara region and targets in the Black Sea.”

Ukrainian ​drones killed at least six people in a wave of strikes on Russia overnight that also hit a warehouse owned by online retailer Ozon and an industrial ⁠facility in the Samara region.

In a post on Telegram, Samara Governor Vyacheslav Fedorishchev said that several people had been wounded in the strikes.

He did not name the industrial facility struck, but Ukraine’s military said it had struck the region’s Novokuibyshevsk refinery, causing a fire.

He also said that two children had been killed and two adults wounded in a strike on the Sea of Azov port town of Yeysk. He said a fire had broken out at an unnamed facility at the town’s port.

The governor of Russia’s Belgorod region, which borders Ukraine, said two people had been killed and 13 wounded in Ukrainian attacks.

In Bryansk, another frontier region, four people were wounded, the local governor said.

In Luhansk, ⁠an eastern Ukrainian province almost all of which is controlled ⁠by Russia, Moscow-installed governor Leonid Pasechnik said that two civilians, including a 16-year-old ‌boy, had been killed ​and nine more wounded.

Putin’s posturing is a poor attempt to scare off broader Western support for Kyiv, say experts. Suha Kidwai reports.

Ukrainian drones hit an industrial facility, as well as a warehouse belonging to Ozon, a major Russian online retailer, in strikes overnight, the governor of Russia’s Samara region said.

In a post on ⁠Telegram, Governor ​Vyacheslav ⁠Fedorishchev said that several people had been wounded in the ⁠strikes.

He did not name the ​industrial ⁠facility struck, ‌but the region hosts several oil refineries which have been repeatedly attacked ‌by Ukraine.

Ozon, Russia’s second-largest online retailer, said in a statement on Telegram that work at its Samara region logistics centre in the town of Chapayevsk had been halted after the strike, which it said caused injuries.

The strike is the first so far on Ozon, after weeks of strikes targeting its larger rival Wildberries.

Russia’s Defence ​Ministry said ‌it downed 457 ​Ukrainian drones overnight.

President Volodymyr Zelensky has renewed calls for more air defence support as rescuers continue to clear rubble and search for missing people.

At least 16 people were killed and more than 130 wounded on Friday when several Russian drones struck a shopping centre in Kryvyi Rih, which is Zelensky’s home town.

In a post on X he wrote: “Every day that Ukraine lacks sufficient air defence means casualties that could have been prevented.”

“Protecting lives requires daily decisions and effective support from the world, and right now, new supplies of ballistic missile interceptors and other missiles can help.”

Russian police have arrested citizens complaining of fuel shortages at the pump, as Ukraine’s drone campaign sparked fighting at petrol stations and rationing.

Moscow and its surrounding regions have been forced to reimpose purchase limits on fuel, capping sales at between 50 and 60 litres per vehicle.

At least two people were killed overnight in Ukraine by Russian drone and missile strikes, authorities said, a day after an attack on a shopping center killed 16 people.

Oleksandr Pertsovsky, the head of Ukraine’s national rail operator Ukrzaliznytsia, said that one of the company’s employees was killed in an overnight ballistic missile attack on the railway in the capital Kyiv.

Russia’s Ministry of Defense said on Saturday its forces had hit a locomotive depot.