Moscow [Russia] / Kiev [Ukraine], June 11: Ukraine's army attacked hundreds of targets deep inside Russia overnight with drones and missiles, Russian authorities said on Wednesday.
The Defence Ministry in Moscow said 326 enemy drones were intercepted. This figure cannot be independently verified but suggests a large-scale Ukrainian attack.
Among the targets hit was the Samara refinery on the Volga, Russian Telegram channels reported. In the Vladimir region east of Moscow, two oil industry facilities were damaged, according to the authorities. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed on X that these targets were attacked.
In Cheboksary on the Volga, Russian authorities said three people were injured in a missile attack. Zelensky said an armaments company there was fired on with Ukrainian FP-5 Flamingo cruise missiles. "We continue to apply long-range sanctions against Russian military facilities and the oil industry," he wrote.
A drone alert was also triggered in the Siberian city of Omsk, 2,800 kilometres from Kiev. Omsk is home to Russia's largest oil refinery. However, there were no reports of an actual strike.
History museum hit in Sevastopol In Sevastopol, on the Crimean peninsula, a drone struck a history museum, damaging the panorama of the Siege of Sevastopol 1854-1855, the largest exhibit in the Black Sea museum, Ruslan Gagkuyev, the chairman of the Russian Historical Society, told the TASS news agency.
Russia illegally annexed Crimea in 2014.
Gagkuyev called the attack deliberate as did the head of the occupation administration, Mikhail Razvozhayev, who called the incident a targeted attack on a cultural institution in a Telegram post. Both said the piece would be restored.
Unlike Russia, hitting cultural institutions would be atypical for Ukrainian forces. By contrast, in more than four years of war of aggression, Russia has damaged many museums, theatres, libraries, schools and churches in Ukraine in airstrikes.
Drone swarm hits Kharkiv Russian overnight drone attacks hit the north-eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv the hardest.
The regional administration reported 26 impacts within a short period. Five people were injured, it said.
Ukraine's air force counted 207 Russian drones overnight of which 181 were said to have been intercepted.
Source: Qatar Tribune
